Clever Quotes

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever chocolate-saving technique.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect!

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

I drink therefore I am.

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

I wouldn't agree with people saying Lil Wayne is wack, you know what I mean? Because I've heard Lil Wayne records many times and he say a lot of clever things.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.