Quotes about clever
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.
clever
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 stupid people
Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things? Stephen Fry
clever writing years
Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column. Spiro T. Agnew
clever stupid men
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Thomas Mann
clever average mind
A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest. Robert Reed
clever character play
The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say. Robbie Coltraine
clever men thinking
We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it! Richard P. Feynman
clever self games
The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.
clever love-life science
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
clever understanding brain
Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything. Walt Disney
clever men fool
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right. Voltaire
clever tyrants
Clever tyrants are never punished.
clever teenager stupid
The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever. William Landay