Quotes About Cleverness

This kind of feigned naturalness has countless applications in daily life, where nothing is more dangerous than looking smarter than the next person; the Natural pose is the perfect way to disguise your cleverness. But if you are uncontrollably childish and cannot turn it off, you run the risk of seeming pathetic, earning not sympathy but pity and disgust.

Thank you kindly, dear Mole, for all your pains and trouble tonight, and especially for your cleverness this morning!' The

You'll tell me a story and I'll spare you ? You think I don't see what you're doing ? I've read Arabian Nights. Call me Scheherazade, baby ! Actually, she's one tricksy bitch. Who, by the way, still owes me twenty gold pieces and a pound of sesame.

Declan and Regin: You'll tell me a story and I'll spare you? You think I don't see what you're doing? I've read Arabian Nights . Call me Scheherazade, baby! Actually, she's one tricksy bitch. Who, by the way, still owes me twenty gold pieces and a pound of sesame.

Strife and chaos always traveled hand in hand with opportunity, though. It was just a question of whether one was strong and clever enough to take advantage.

Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.' After

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

The police shall never catch me, because I have been too clever for them.

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

Right ... And I'm not sayin' that if brains were water, you wouldn't have enough to baptise a flea.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

Do not wish for beauty, Alice. Wish for cleverness instead. Wish for a strong back and a strong will. They will do you more good than red lips and dimpels.

There are different kinds of cleverness, Sara.

Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows.

Artemis ducked. Cudgeon didn't. Guess what? Artemis was smarter.

I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you're as clever as you keep telling everyone you are." "I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared...

Another reason she was wary around him was that he was simply too bloody damned clever. Frantically

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

I'm pretty smart, and I like being smart.

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.