(226 quotes found)
“Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.”
Edward Hoagland
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
W. H. Auden
“Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me, O master.”
William Carlos Williams
“You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.”
Tom Bodett
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
“Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.”
Billy Wilder
“An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.”
Raymond Chandler
“Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life's like a pencil, you can erase it but don't erase so far that you forget what you wrote.”
Rebecca Plaster
“Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.”
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
