Quotes about clever
clever able cleverness
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
clever passion men
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
clever different way
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.
clever cleverness
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
clever feelings cheerful
And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful. Ian Mcewan
clever boys shapes
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
clever heroic hard
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
clever peaceful
I don't see them budging on this peaceful use issue. It was clever on their part.
clever cool emotion event full heads kitchen knew played players pleased sink spoke
I am very pleased with my players. We spoke in our preparation about the emotion of the event and we knew full well that the kitchen sink would come out in the first 20 minutes. My players played with very cool heads and played some clever rugby.
clever deluded learned
I am not a learned Pandit, I am not clever or wise. I do not wander; I am not deluded by doubt.
clever men law
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! Honore de Balzac
clever church wonderful
In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful. James Denney
clever somewhere-else knowing
Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something. Iyanla Vanzant
clever fans stuff
I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat. Elton John
clever boys thinking
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do. Paul Auster
clever dad father
Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so. Pam Brown
clever government order
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. Jurgen Habermas
clever thinking phrases
You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling? Julia Quinn
clever style news
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. Joseph Pulitzer
clever sick nuisance
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. Oscar Wilde
clever long hearing
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
clever book writing
If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is. Patrick Rothfuss
clever people important
Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.
clever cat thinking
I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce." "It’s a clever lettuce, then." "Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?" "Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked. "Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.
clever boys doors
I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. "That," he said firmly to the room in general, "is what comes of working with iron every day.
clever keeping-your-mouth-shut half
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
clever giving directors
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Patrice Leconte
clever fun hate
Never drink diet soda. It shows you have no nerve. Only drink real colas, caffeine-packed energy drinks, or vitamin water. Hate champagne because that’s what everyone expects you to love. Energy drinks are the best party drinks. You never get tired, you never get a hangover, and you can make fun of all the loaded people who think they’re clever but are really acting stupid. Paris Hilton
clever rude
To be rude is as good as being clever. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
clever book vision
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an extremely clever but stunningly reductionist argument that the whole Constitution is really designed to protect private property... Can a constitution reflecting as diverse an array of visions and aspirations as ours really be reducible to such as sadly single-minded vision as that? Laurence Tribe
clever party cutting
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away. Lauren Willig
clever smart people
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia Mikhail Bulgakov
clever expression should-have
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents. Martin Luther King, Jr.