#clever

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#done #force #funny #gone #hadn

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing. ↗

— Les Baxter

#clever #conquered #i #spanish #thing

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#clever #doing #enjoy #fun #i

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#devil #education #make #man #more

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. ↗

— James Lovelock

#host #inefficient #kills #stays #virus

And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#attached #clever #did #finger #fly

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked. ↗

— Kate Moss

#clever #commercial #did #made #pictures

In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way. ↗

— Billie Piper

#crafty #doctor #exactly #female #few