#lever

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#clever #funny #man #must #sexiness

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers. ↗

— Jack Dee

#custom #hate #i #like #officers

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#choice #cleverness #good-looks #questions #beauty

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #dishonest #good #good thing

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#favors #history #human #human history #natural

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#clever #crazy #desmond #free #going

Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

#never #punished #tyrants

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#clever #dormant #erupt #ingenious #later

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#clever #funny #i #i think #just

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man. ↗

— Lalla Ward

#clever #could #did #douglas #fiction