Famous quotes containing the words smart and/or energy:
“Agnes: A half-smart guy, that’s what I always draw. Never once a man who’s smart all the way around the course. Never once.
Philip Marlowe: I hurt you much, sugar?
Agnes: You and every other man I’ve ever met.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“Since the beginning of time, three-quarters of the mental energy and of the lies inspired by vanity have been expended for their inferiors by people who are only abased by such expenditure. And Swann, who was easygoing and unaffected with a duchess, trembled at the thought of being scorned and put on airs when he was with a housemaid.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)