Quotes About Cleverness

If you want to say something clever, you have only to talk long enough.

Work as smart as you are able.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

Listo es el que hace listezas.

Veo que no has encontrado a tu tío. Qué pena. Si fueras un poco menos astuto, quizá tendrías más suerte.

He that would make a pun would pick a pocket.

They were not much to look at, he reflected, as the whip from the yardarm hoisted up their meagre belongings: three or four were decidedly simple, and two others had that indefinable air of men of some parts whose cleverness sets them apart from their fellows, but not nearly so far as they imagine.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

Laugh, if thou art wise.

She's being stupid and she's sure she's being very clever, and that's a nuisance, but I don't think I hate her.

Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.

For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

He had tried to catch her out, but always she thought ahead of him. Her wits moved quick. The snow leopard was sharper than the black bear.

Goodness is helpless without wits

I guess you never think your enemy is as clever as you are.

Whatever faults he had, stupidity wasn't one of them.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least....

The disturbing thing about Cardan is how well he plays the fool to disguise his own cleverness.

Cardan is clever, but it's not a nice kind of cleverness.

But now you've explained it," he says. "And you do love me." "I love you," I confirm. "Because I am clever and funny," he says, smiling. "You didn't mention my handsomeness." "Or your deliciousness," I say. "Although those are both good qualities.