Clever Quotes

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Action will destroy your procrastination.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Blessed if you do... Blessed if you don't... Blessed no matter what!

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)