Quotes about clever
clever silly census-bureau
The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other way in the partisan sense, is, on the face of it, a silly charge. It's the same Census Bureau that's considered to be incompetent by some people, and then some of the same people are saying that this incompetent agency is so clever and so Machiavellian that it can design a census for partisan reasons. Kenneth Prewitt
clever real thinking
There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to. Jonathan Safran Foer
clever believe policy
Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free. Napoleon Bonaparte
clever opportunity men
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
clever protect feels
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. Orson Welles
cleverness human jackie nature planning predict prepare run smack wall
All he has is his wits. He's not a superhero. He doesn't have any Jackie Chan martial-arts moves, ... And every episode, his planning and preparation and cleverness run smack into the wall of fate, chance, accident, human nature -- things you can't predict or prepare for. Wentworth Miller
clever fear halloween
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer
clever people important
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people the underlying value of that which is traditional, that which is prescriptive. Enoch Powell
clever truth believe
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
clever intelligent people
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
clever drinking intelligent
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
clever reading reality
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.
clever honesty ignorance
When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay. James Surowiecki
clever noble opponents
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty. Novalis
clever addiction ironic
We tend to get what we expect. Norman Vincent Peale
clever doe alarms
If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever. Eric Alterman
clever way enough
There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it. Rick Riordan
clever heart passion
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
clever white mad
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
clever people choices
The throne we honour is the people's choice.
clever looks newspapers
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.
clever speech aspersion
An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
clever rivals headstrong
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
clever tales makers
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
clever reading writing
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
clever gallantry conscience
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
clever
I was struck all on a heap.
clever memories our-memories
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
clever aversion littles
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
clever pineapples politeness
He is the very pineapple of politeness.
clever people lasts
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
clever trying quarrels
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
clever hands cowardice
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!