Clever Quotes

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism. — Oscar Wilde
No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas. — Virginia Woolf
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities… — Leo Tolstoy
Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result… — Thomas Merton
Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to… — Jim Rohn
Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that… — Ignatius of Antioch
Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination… — Tom Shippey
I'm jealous of my parents. I'll never have a kid as cool as theirs. — Chris Gayle
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. — John Steinbeck
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. — Karl Kraus
Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects. — Confucius
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven â€“ number seven… — R. K. Laxman
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… — Chris Shipley
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. — J. B. Priestley
You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to… — Mary MacLane
I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make… — Lalla Ward
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are… — Oscar Wilde
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most… — Edward Gibbon

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