#lever

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

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fools #men

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. ↗

— Holly Black

#con #devil #lie #sexy #wit

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

Heard, Seen, and Dunn et al. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#witty #witty

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. ↗

— Mark Twain

#clever #exclamation-point #writing #writing-advice

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire. ↗

— Kim Basinger

#balloon #clever #desire #going #helium

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily. ↗

— Max Baucus

#given #leverage #should #up

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor