X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Cleverness" (116)

Page 4 of 5
Filter & Style
Image
You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.
Mary J. Miller
Image
On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.
Norm MacDonald
Image
Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill
Image
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.
John Climacus
Image
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Image
Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
Laozi
Image
The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own wit is very well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere
Image
When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.
Laozi
Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their values, to their intellectual sloth for their principles, to their rhetorical cleverness for their conscience, and to their regimented conformism for their philosophy.
Kenny Smith
Image
More than machinery, we need humanity.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.
Alan Thicke
Image
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
Aleister Crowley
Image
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.
Nawal El Saadawi
Image
cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?
Cassandra Clare
Image
... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.
Keith Jarrett
Image
A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by a sparrow. Machinations are hidden within machinations changes arise beyond changes. So how can wit and cleverness be relied upon?
Zicheng Hong
Image
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?
Michael Parkinson
Image
The key is not money organization, cleverness, or education. Are you and I seeing the results Peter saw? Are we bringing thousands of men and women to Christ the way he did? If not, we need to get back to His power source.
Jim Cymbala
Image
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
Louis C. K.
Image
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
Honore de Balzac
Image
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
John Lubbock
Previous
Next