#clever

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

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#application #clever #consider #constant #hell

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. (Get Out or Get in Line, 1928) ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#loyalty #loyalty

Oh, the cleverness of me! ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#arrogance

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

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#favors #history #human #human history #natural

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

— Billy Wilder

#audience #clever #make #obvious #subtleties

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#cleverness #come #down #green #heights

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#half #intelligent #know #men #mr