And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh…

“She wants to tell them that she’s not that deep, that she no longer has the energy to be manipulative or conniving. She wants…

— Grant Ginder

“You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when you're feeling…

— Lynne Truss

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

— Timothy Morton

Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my…

— Bertrand Russell

It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's…

— Audrey Hepburn

Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company."…

— John Flanagan

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

— Christian Dior

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in…

— Frederick William Robertson

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

— Martha Washington

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without…

— Jonathan Swift

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it…

— Elizabeth Strout

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

— Edwin Percy Whipple