One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was.
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
