Quote by Quentin Crisp
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

Other quotes by Quentin Crisp

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. – Quentin Crisp

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respect
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. – Quentin Crisp

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Intelligence
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Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. – Aldrich Ames

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Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. – Godfried Danneels

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Intelligence

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. – Ted Stevens

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? – John Keats

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