Clever Quote by Gore Vidal

That's 2 clever by half and 2x2 clever 4 me. Thnkas!

— Shorty

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too…

— John Major

My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

— Charlie Higson

If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable…

— Bill Kristol

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

— PJ Harvey

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep…

— John Stuart Mill

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

— Thomas Jefferson

However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and…

— Matthew Arnold

I just think Barack [Obama], he doesn't dig being asked at all. He's got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess…

— Bill O'Reilly

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

— Edward Zwick

I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one thing or…

— Amartya Sen

...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This…

— George F. Kennan