Clever Quotes

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What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. — Terence
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. — Margot Asquith
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. — Arthur Wellesley
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they… — Philip Pullman
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent… — Kenneth Grahame
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever… — George Pierce Baker
I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare. — John Crowley
That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing. — Les Baxter
I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever. — Thomas Haden Church
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. — Thomas Mann
I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. — Brian Celio
I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy? — Jennifer Granholm
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. — Jose Maria Aznar
Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like,… — Gelila Bekele
Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how… — Ines de La Fressange
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or… — A. S. Byatt
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and… — Ambrose Bierce
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Don't you see, don't you see, that the charade is over? And all the Best Deceptions and Clever Cover Story awards go to you. So… — Dashboard Confessional
He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains… — Robert Hall

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