Clever Quotes

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.

All true success flows out of giving something to someone.

[I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.

You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

I was struck all on a heap.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!

Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

I'm suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world

I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

All my friends make really small, naturalistic, dialogue-heavy movies, so I'm kind of used to that. I didn't want my movie to be rambly and I didn't want it to be cutesy, or quirky, or clever.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical