Quotes About Clever

I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.

I'm a resourceful guy!

I liked Big L's wordplay with the multi-syllable rhymes he hit so clean.

I am all for high art but I owe it to myself to be clever about it and do commercial things too.

How clever am I? I'm really quite clever. I mean, look, I've got a first-class degree from Oxford.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

You can tell a man is clever by his answers – you can tell a man is wise by his questions.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

The Labour party still really has no idea why their people voted for Brexit. They still think that basically it's naive Labour voters being conned by terribly clever Tories.

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

I like that about the English people. They are sharp.

Kids are so shrewd.

Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.

Let me get this straight." Gabel paced in a small circle. "Never Dead Ned may actually be a secret wizard because secret wizards don't go around showing off their power in public, except to convince people that they aren't really secret wizards, which very few people suspect even exist in the first place." "It's a very clever ploy," said Frank. "Ingenious," agreed Regina.

America didn't bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

My dear Watson," he said, "you aren't supposed to be as clever as this.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Impatience makes fools of clever men...

Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.

I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

Brainy's the new sexy.

Read as little as possible of literary criticism — such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view.

Read as little as possible of aesthetic criticism - such things are either partisan views, petrified and grown senseless in their lifeless induration, or they are clever quibblings in which today one view wins and tomorrow the opposite. Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.