Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Clever Quotes, Prose And Poetry Quotes

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

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I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

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Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

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Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

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A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

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