Clever Quotes - 58 Sayings on Cleverness Topic
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58 Clever Quotes:
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. W. C. Fields
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde
I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee. Emilia Fox
Clever tyrants are never punished. Voltaire
I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. Brian Celio
Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie. Guy Finley
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. William Makepeace Thackeray
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. James Lovelock
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. Euripides
If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick. Daniel Ek
When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten. Maria Lassnig
I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie. Maiwenn
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer
I think being nice is more important than being clever. Ricky Gervais
A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. Percy Ross
A clever man commits no minor blunders. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. A. N. Wilson
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. Norm MacDonald
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. Wilson Mizner
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. Walter Kerr
It's clever, but is it Art? Rudyard Kipling
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. Benjamin Disraeli
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. Barbara Ehrenreich
People think you can't be clever if you have breasts. Kelly Brook
There is nothing clever about confusion. William Wyler
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. Arthur Wellesley
A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions. Steve Breen
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. Thomas Carlyle
In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me. John Mayer
Too clever is dumb. Ogden Nash
It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism. Sylvia Plath
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. J. B. Priestley
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. Cornel West
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. Charles Kingsley
The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally. Bobbie Ann Mason
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. Jose Maria Aznar
There is no bore like a clever bore. Samuel Butler
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. Cesare Pavese
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. Hugh Laurie
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. Graham Greene
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. Livy
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. Arnold Bennett
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. Terence
Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all. Menander
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. Gilbert Parker
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