Clever Quotes · Page 5

Clever is as clever does.

— Tony DiTerlizzi

The world is as you are.

— David Lynch

I love clever lyrics.

— Walker Hayes

[I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.

— Mike Holloway

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives

— Paulo Coelho

Violence isn't the answer. Violence is the question and the answer is yes.

— Anonymous

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

— Donald A. Norman

“He celebrated his solitude with a frown.”

— R.J. Lawrence

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Never apologize for being clever, Shallan. It sets a bad precedent.”

— Brandon Sanderson

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

— Billy Wilder

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

— W. C. Fields

Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.

— Gena Showalter

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

— Philippa Gregory

“Whenever a woman smiled his way, she'd already begun dividing her life into trimesters.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

— Anonymous

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

— Jose Maria Aznar

“Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates…

— Kishore Bansal

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love.…

— Michael Ende

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as…

— William Saroyan

A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.…

— Sun Tzu

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If I hadn't gone towards boxing, I might have been one of those kids getting into trouble. A lot of my friends…

— Amir Khan

I never try to be religious. I never try to be any type of religious cat. Spiritual, yes, but religion, when you…

— Killah Priest

I would [call myself a feminist], yes. I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go…

— Rashida Jones

To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be…

— Lee Kuan Yew

I know you're not a heart surgeon but you mended this broken heart.

— Raghib Clitso

“I was clever in a severely limited sense”

— Mark Bibbins

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

— Isaac of Nineveh

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

— Horace

The thought of you before slumber gave me a number of dreams in color.

— Raghib Clitso

“If home is where the heart is, Jason has lived in his throat for a long time.”

— Jamie Mason

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

— Robert Holden

“Alek: "Am I that obvious?" Deryn: "No. Im just dead clever.”

— Scott Westerfeld

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

— Susan Jeffers

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

— Charles E. McKenzie

She is America's Most Wanted without even committing a felony.

— Raghib Clitso