Quotes about clever
clever thinking rome
I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it. Karl Pilkington
clever winter cities
Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter. Toni Morrison
clever definitions beloved
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
clever writing mind
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could. Tom Stoppard
clever believe men
You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
clever hard-work years
I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud of that. Never pulled out. Never had cramps. Never lost very much because of fitness, especially later on in my career where I knew I've put in the hard work. I've done that. I've been very fortunate and clever as well to understand how I need to work, when I need to work. So I'm very happy to have stayed injury free for so long. I hope I can still maintain a few good years on the tour. I really hope so. Roger Federer
clever mean thinking
A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread. Sally Potter
clever heart desire
let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire. Rumi
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.
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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!
clever eye countenance
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
clever numbers judging
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
clever justice judging
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
clever wine men
A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.
clever military adventure
Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures. Thucydides
clever men proud
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
clever anger trying
Never try to have the last word. You might get it. Robert A. Heinlein
clever men laughing
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.