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  • I read a lot. I spend of lot time thinking. It actually looks like I'm doing nothing, but... hanging out with clever and interesting people is a must if you're writing comedy, like hanging out with a good bass player when you're a drummer.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Al Murray Quotes , Clever Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Clever Quotes , Stupid Quotes
  • I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Clever Quotes , Ignorance Quotes
  • She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Clever Quotes
  • Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Clever Quotes , Home Quotes
  • Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Clever Quotes , Men Quotes