Quote by Jack Vance Download Open image ““Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?”” — Jack Vance ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“An arrogant man knows his own worth, and if he is clever as well, knows yours.” — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I always had the idea that when I was older I'd get frightfully clever. I'd get awfully learned, I'd get jolly sage. People would… — Ralph Richardson Copy Share Image
“We think we’re so clever. And yet we’re always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“When you read this you may already have met Hermes. In case you haven't, I'll add that he is a dog. But don't worry.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“A wise man knows he knows nothing. A fool thinks they know all.” — Michael Chatfield Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The dead man's companions at the counter started to their feet, but halted as Voynod with great aplomb turned to face them. "Take care,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
