Clever Quotes

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever

I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.

I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

We didn't die,' she said. Of course not. I'm too clever to die, and you're too pretty.' I am pretty,' Valkryie said, managing a grin.

People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

You can really do some clever editing even within the limited two-track format.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

I have always thought that Donald Trump was an incredibly clever politician, but he's - at some point he's going to become unwound and maybe this is it.

ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."

Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity.

I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it is actually. She is classy and clever and smart and sharp.

Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.