Clever Quotes
1299 quotes by 763 authors
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Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
— Tony Randall
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
— Percy Ross
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
— Bertrand Russell
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
— George Bernard Shaw
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me…
— Shel Silverstein
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