#clever

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#clever #woman #beauty

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#people #death

«¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!» ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#crazy #dreams-inspirational #madness #poem #dreams

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

I'm stupid. I can never think of something... ↗

— Piedad Ornelas

#humor #retard #sisters-in-crime #stupidity #humor

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses. ↗

— T.A. Miles

#clever #dry-humor #fantasy #uncle #wit

What I stand for is what I stand on. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#inspirational #inspirational

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. ↗

— Criss Jami

#articulation #babble #babbling #cleverness #comprehension

If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends." "We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt such a flutter now. "You certainly are an intelligent man." "Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, "but I'm also very smart. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#clever #count-olaf #funny-humor #intelligent #lemony-snicket