Quotes About Cleverness

Tigris had said to trust her, and he did. Only his cousin's cleverness with a needle had saved him so far. Still,

Tigris had said to trust her, and he did. Only his cousin's cleverness with a needle had saved him so far.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

he came to the conclusion that there was some mysterious connection between cleverness and unhappiness, and thanking his stars that he was neither scholar, courtier, nor poet

How clever of you, sir, to be rich rather than smart.

It is good to be brave, Lieutenant. It is better to be smart, and much less painful for those around you

THERE IS NO such thing as magic. That was merely the word people used to explain something so cleverly done that there was no ready explanation for it, and the simplest technique employed by its practitioners was to distract the audience with one moving and obvious hand (usually in a white glove) while the other was doing something else.

If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.

I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.

Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter. Word was that underneath the good times and the easy money something evil ran the streets and nothing was safe—not even the dead

The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea.

Una cosa es ser listo y otra ser inteligente.

Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints- the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do...

I've known a great many clever men. I've outlived them all. Do you know why? I ignored them" – Lady Olenna Tyrell

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is, "Don't grumble. Plug on!"

He that would pun would pick a pocket.

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious, and selfish men.

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

He'd spent nearly two hours with her before he'd killed her, and nearly an hour more after she'd been dead. Yet he hadn't left a trace. Clever boy.