Quotes about clever
clever men law
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! Honore de Balzac
clever years ideas
It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea. Ian Hunter
clever humor life looks sees showing
He really is a poet. He is chronicling life from an 18-year-old's perspective. He's not showing off with long words, but with clever sentences. He looks around him and sees there is humor there.
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 passion men
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
clever good-luck men
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
clever men enough
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
clever eye mind
The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.
clever silly men
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
cleverness deceptive
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
clever passion men
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
clever people lucky
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
clever men evil
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
clever desire becoming
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
clever opportunity people
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
clever fall men
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
clever people easier
It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
clever desire cleverness
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
cleverness knows principal
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
clever able cleverness
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
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 law jail
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people. Howard Zinn
clever heart cutting
If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed. Guy Finley
clever thinking years
How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb. Gore Vidal
clever half population
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.