Clever Quotes · Page 29

This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home…

— Terry Pratchett

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

— Jim Fixx

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period,…

— Voltaire

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

— Judith Viorst

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

— Menander

If the grass is greener on the other side, you can bet the water bill is higher.

— Anonymous

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

— Mikhail Bulgakov

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

— Paul Halmos

Never drink diet soda. It shows you have no nerve. Only drink real colas, caffeine-packed energy drinks, or vitamin water. Hate champagne…

— Paris Hilton

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd…

— Rumi

Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody…

— Francoise Mouly

If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting…

— Matthew Vaughn

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign posted a pretty clever online quiz that makes a similar point with the Republican presidential field. Who said…

— Chris Hayes

We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are…

— David Grinspoon

The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they…

— Anonymous

But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and…

— Kim Harrison

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

— Ivan Krylov

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying…

— Robert Breault

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good…

— Henry James

If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working…

— Robert Rinder

Calories: the tiny creatures that live in your closet and sew your clothes that tiny bit tighter every night.

— Anonymous

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

— Thomas Mann

Even when the light at the end does seem faint. You are the creator with the canvas and the paint. It's never…

— Raghib Clitso

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

— Robert Reed

“Clever people, people who are driven to succeed, know what they do not know, and try to reduce their ignorance using their…

— David K. Mullaly

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

— Bertrand Russell

You do your best and give everything when you are training, but you need to look after each other too, you have…

— Ben White

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

— George Carlin

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because…

— Marian Keyes

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

— Euripides

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many…

— Frances Wright

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

— Ian Mcewan

Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.

— Sharad Pawar

“To ugly ducklings everywhere, Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons: They'll never get to be swans”

— Zoë Marriott

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly…

— Anonymous

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.

— Hugh Laurie

“But the writing was clever. The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive. The”

— Anthony Trollope