Clever Quotes

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"

It was fun to be clever.

Everyone should have an evil secret plan.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

Ed, I see you're out drinking again. What's the occasion? I was sober.

When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

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

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

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

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

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.

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.

TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.

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

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

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.

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

I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it.

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

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.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

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.

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

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.

One genius has made many clever artists.

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.

Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!