Clever Quotes
1299 quotes by 763 authors
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
— Hermann Hesse
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Many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you…
— Jeanette Winterson
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When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take…
— Bertrand Russell
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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
— Mercedes Lackey
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Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When…
— Toni Morrison
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It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again. River: What face? The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face. River: This is…
— Steven Moffat
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A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.
— John Grogan
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The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you…
— T.H. White
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The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.
— Neil Strauss
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let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
— Unknown Author
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Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour…
— John Crowley
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Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to…
— Orson Scott Card
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The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively…
— Matt Taibbi
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You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette…
— Terry Pratchett
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I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.
— Tove Jansson
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And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so…
— Andrew Clements
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