Clever Quotes

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If they are just, they are better than clever. — Sophocles
The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be… — Alphonse Daudet
I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to… — Paula Poundstone
I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the… — Billy Joel
Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie. — Guy Finley
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards… — Soren Kierkegaard
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not… — Soren Kierkegaard
They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool. — John Lennon
Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance… — Paul Meyer
I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever. — Mikhail Prokhorov
In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she… — Billie Piper
Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and… — Newt Gingrich
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. — William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with… — Frederick Lenz
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us… — Joseph Epstein
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever — Criss Jami
No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. — Patrice Leconte
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough. — Elizabeth McGovern
I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls… — Anthony Minghella
Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and… — Denise Mina
The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia. — Samuel West
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. — Jilly Cooper
Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever,… — James Alan Gardner
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to… — Ernest Rutherford

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