Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: honesty deception tricks men women marriage attachment cleverness permanency
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi)Tag: wisdom misattributed world change self cleverness
Sometimes one 'needs' to use cleverness and kick wisdom aside.It's not everything that needs the application of wisdom, cleverness has a role to play. Andby the fact that one knows when to use cleverness and kick wisdomaside, is another wisdom of its own.
Emmanuel AghadoTag: wisdom philosophy cleverness
I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: ignorance knowledge-wisdom cleverness not-knowing
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
George R.R. MartinTag: betrayal battle clever cleverness deceiving
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
Julian FellowesTag: cleverness downton-abbey violet-crawley
My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane AustenTag: education information conversation company good-company cleverness
Within you is the power of unlimited creation.
Bryant McGillTag: creativity creation cleverness
There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
Thomas MannTag: stupidity stupid clever cleverness castorp kinds-of
(a) Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.
(b) Cleverness didn't necessarily make a good prime minister.
(c) If a person couldn't even run a pickle factory profitably, how was that person going to run a whole country?
And, most important of all:
(d) All Indian mothers are obsessed with their sons and are therefore poor judges of their abilities.
Tag: cleverness
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