Clever Quote by Louise Penny

“They didn't think he was simple-minded. If anything they thought him a little too clever. But there are times in the history of humanity…

— Howard Jacobson

“He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white,…

— John Christopher

“I maintain that he is in his right mind, and that if he had not been, he would have behaved more cleverly.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Was it a weakness of man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?”

— Todd Strasser

“He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“[I]n speaking about someone's character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate.”

— Aristotle

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“His face turned scornful for a moment when he considered that wise people serve fools almost everywhere.”

— Hermann Hesse

“He was a man whose calmness reflected his confidence that he meant whatever he did-- which is different... from confidence that whatever he did…

— Cheryl Mendelson