#clever

Civilization begins with distillation ↗

— William Faulkner

#clever #faulkner #funny #funny

Why is abbreviation such a long word? ↗

— Teresa Monachino

#funny #teresa-monachino #wordplay #words-fail-me #funny

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. ↗

— Holly Black

#con #devil #lie #sexy #wit

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. ↗

— Louise Brown

#battle #believe #classes #clever #daughters

I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#between #clever #clever people #coasts #driven

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#clever #funny #man #must #sexiness

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers. ↗

— Jack Dee

#custom #hate #i #like #officers

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#choice #cleverness #good-looks #questions #beauty

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. ↗