Quotes about clever
clever speaks-out games
Many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted. Yes, Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion: Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear. J. K. Rowling
clever fear games
Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.
clever design needs
Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original. Ivan Chermayeff
clever mistake men
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily. H. G. Wells
clever eye psych
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story. H. L. Mencken
clever thinking guy
I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence. Grant Morrison
clever children men
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. Georg C. Lichtenberg
clever work crazy
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
clever women believe
Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy? Friedrich Nietzsche
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.