Quotes about 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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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 be-kind kind
It's harder to be kind than clever Jeff Bezos
clever be-kind kind
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
clever military pressure
Pressure makes diamonds George S. Patton
clever reading thinking
I was in front of an ambulance the other day, and I noticed that the word ambulance was spelled in reverse print on the hood of the ambulance. And I thought, Well, isn't that clever. I look in the rear-view mirror; I can read the word ambulance behind me. Of course while you're reading, you don't see where you're going, you crash. You need an ambulance. I think they're trying to drum up some business on the way back from lunch. Jerry Seinfeld
clever hate people
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. Jerome K. Jerome
clever intelligent people
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
clever real stupid
As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the Onion, I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing. Christopher Hitchens
clever real smart
System uptime, data protection, and identity theft are weighty issues. It takes real ingenuity to out-think the fraudsters who are trying to steal identities and hack into enterprise systems. The 12 smart companies that debuted security solutions today at DEMO have designed serious, and seriously clever, innovations. Chris Shipley
clever thinking people
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. Gilbert Parker
clever men good-man
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave. Frances Wright
clever causes energy
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. George Pell
clever eunuchs versions
Clever is the eunuch version of funny. George Meyer
clever school boys
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college." G. H. Hardy
clever winning people
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox. Friedrich Nietzsche
clever rights people
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
clever player feet
Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's. Franz Beckenbauer
clever smart character
I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw. Jeff Lindsay
clever stupid hero
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero who’s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (don’t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) he’ll find the treasure. Jeanette Winterson
clever sin accused
I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say. Jennifer Stone
clever stupidity pigeons
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon. George Eliot
clever secret three
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
clever writing aunt
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc. George Seaton
clever men doe
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do... George R. R. Martin
clever men laughing
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.