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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?' Minho asked..."Go ahead," Newt replied.Minho nodded and faced the crowd. 'Be careful,' he said dryly. 'Don't die.'Thomas would have laughed if he could, but he was too scared for it to come out.'Great. We're all bloody inspired,' Newt answered.

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

It's clever, but is it Art?

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

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.