Clever Quotes

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

There is nothing Clever about not being Happy

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

Chennai Super Kings will win the IPL. MS Dhoni's Clever Captaincy is the reason behind Chennai Super Kings’ success in #‎ IPL !

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil.

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.

Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven