#clever

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

#clever man #cynic #enough #man #takes

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#clever people #journalists #lawyers #now #people

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#any #cleverness #decadence #except #incapable

Too clever is dumb. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#dumb #too

I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game. ↗

— Kevin Nealon

#appreciate #bowl #clever #commercials #entertaining

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#comedy #direction #gone #into #ironic

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#action #been #brown #bush #cities

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#every #fool #handsome #irresistible #ladies

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#clever #clever man #enough #ever #fool

Civilization begins with distillation ↗

— William Faulkner

#clever #faulkner #funny #funny