Clever Quotes · Page 28

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

— Jay Black

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

— Alison Krauss

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

— Bertolt Brecht

“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well…

— John Heath-Stubbs

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

— Gautama Buddha

The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever…

— Mitch Hedberg

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend…

— Banksy

I'm just trying to make your trust issues something you are no longer subscribed to.

— Raghib Clitso

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true…

— Maya Angelou

Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely'…

— Chuck Klosterman

“He is quiet and small, he is black From his ears to the tip of his tail; He can creep through the…

— T.S. Eliot

“Being clever was, after all, my primary source of self-esteem. I’m a very sad person, in all senses of the word, but…

— Alice Oseman

The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who…

— Lyndon LaRouche

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am…

— Mary MacLane

I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course…

— Michael Howard

In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to…

— Jaak Kilmi

Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

— John Currin

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

It's up to me to use my brain, be clever, find the pockets of space, and get on the ball.

— Ashley Young

“Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in front of you…

— Paul Hoffman

Number of followers doesn't make you a leader . Hitler had thousands and jesus had 12

— Anonymous

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

— Roger Penrose

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

“Jasnah didn’t want to merely prove her points. She wanted to drive them right into your skull, with a flourish and a…

— Brandon Sanderson

Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

— Winston Churchill

“In his experience, ‘trust me’ was just a polite way of saying ‘brace yourself.”

— Janus Lucky

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever…

— Anonymous

They say never judge a book by its cover but they also said a picture is worth a thousand words.

— Jaz

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

— Naguib Mahfouz

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…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

— Mary Beard

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

— Quentin Crisp

Your lips are home, your eyes are hope when I feel alone, and your smile brings me one when mine is gone..

— Raghib Clitso

In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

— Isamu Noguchi

“He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one.”

— Helen Smith

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

— Toni Morrison

Don’t just create content to get credit for being clever — create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your…

— David Ogilvy

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

— Winston Churchill

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

— Edith Wharton

“Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from…

— Mehmet Murat ildan