Clever Quotes

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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. — Orson Welles
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. — Cornel West
I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in… — Joss Whedon
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. — Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. — Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. — Oscar Wilde
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. — Oscar Wilde
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. — Oscar Wilde
He has Van Gogh's ear for music. — Billy Wilder
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. — Billy Wilder
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. — A. N. Wilson
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. — Fred Wilson
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. — Robert Anton Wilson
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. — Woodrow Wilson
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would… — Geoff Mulgan
I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from… — Chuck Palahniuk
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it. — William Shakespeare

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