Clever Quotes

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

You and Teacher,” said Molly. “Yes,” said Peter. “She’s very clever. You’ll like her.” “I’m sure,” said Molly.

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

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.

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

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.

Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

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

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living

Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales

No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!

True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.

Luke Jermay is as devious as he's clever, and he's a Master at complication - with this take on TTTCBE he might just fool the Devil.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

I'm a Leo. Leos don't believe in this astrology stuff.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

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.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.