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In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make… — George Mikes
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. — Israel Zangwill
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. — Al Yankovic
How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences… — Max Nordau
I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before.… — Kate Morton
In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the… — Akio Morita
If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever. — Lance Armstrong
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an… — Laurence Tribe
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers… — Whitfield Diffie
These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth… — Mother Teresa
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at… — Stephen Leacock
People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with… — Diablo Cody
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still… — Karl Philipp Moritz
But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas. — Mark Rylance
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so… — Ogden Nash
Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb. — Ogden Nash
People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the… — Ronnie Wood
Is this a topic whose time has truly come? The integration of science and religion? Or have I just written a clever book that temporarily… — Ken Wilber
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into… — Winston Churchill
Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers. — Jack Dee
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence… — Angela Carter
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are,… — Thomas Huxley
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning… — Leo Tolstoy

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