Quotes about clever
clever quiet sin
We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins. Ezra Taft Benson
clever medicine sick
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. Euripides
clever anger men
A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.
clever men good-man
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave. Frances Wright
clever causes energy
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. George Pell
clever eunuchs versions
Clever is the eunuch version of funny. George Meyer
clever school boys
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college." G. H. Hardy
clever writing aunt
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. George Seaton
clever men doe
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do... George R. R. Martin
clever men laughing
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
clever hard-work pyramids
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. Gene Roddenberry
clever block kids
It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out Gene Simmons
clever good-life thinking
I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect. Felicity Kendal
clever artist people
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. Henry Moore
clever intelligence cleverness
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. Henri Frederic Amiel
clever people intelligence
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
clever
But am I clever and right or clever and wrong? Cassandra Clare
clever ocean ideas
Medium clever,” Simon acknowledged. “Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.” “I’m always so glad I have no idea what you’re vacantly chattering about,” said Jace. “It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.
clever inferiority lessons
If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned. George Eliot
clever stupidity pigeons
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
clever secret three
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
clever too-much young-writers
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. J. B. Priestley
clever thinking long
Inability to distinguish doctrine is spreading far and wide, and so long as the preacher is "clever" and "earnest," hundreds seem to think it must be all right, and call you dreadfully "narrow and uncharitable" if you hint that he is unsound! J. C. Ryle
clever winning people
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
clever rights people
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
clever player feet
Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's. Franz Beckenbauer
clever smart character
I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw. Jeff Lindsay
clever stupid hero
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero who’s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (don’t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) he’ll find the treasure. Jeanette Winterson
clever sin accused
I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say. Jennifer Stone
clever be-kind kind
It's harder to be kind than clever Jeff Bezos
clever be-kind kind
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
clever military pressure
Pressure makes diamonds George S. Patton
clever thinking body
When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.