Quotes by Clever The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. Harriet Beecher Stowe literature reason clever You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular. Harry Turtledove wise clever doe If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever. Harvey Dunn clever want integrity The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's. Gilbert K. Chesterton husband stupid clever To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening. Hector Hugh Munro afternoon dining clever Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy? Friedrich Nietzsche women clever believe After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. Hemant Joshi marriage husband clever The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. Henrik Ibsen clever war country The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood. Heinrich Heine gazelles mood clever When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance. Friedrich Nietzsche body clever thinking Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel intelligence clever people What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story. H. L. Mencken psych eye clever Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. Henry Moore artist clever people Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. Henri Frederic Amiel cleverness intelligence clever You are good for nothing unless you are clever. Henry James clever I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me. Henry James girl strong clever A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me. Herbert Beerbohm Tree charming models clever Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. Herbert faith clever civilization A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow clever letters dirty If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows. Henry Ward Beecher clever wings men «2021222324252627282930»
