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Quotes About Clever

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
~ Aristophanes
Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of these clever little creatures. They are really just hungry animals looking for something to eat, and have no intention of ruining your happy hour.
~ Michael Dickinson
Ronnie is a very clever winner. He will make sure that he does everything in his power to win the tournament. He is super-fit.
~ Jimmy White
Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.
~ Tim Hunt
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
~ Scott Adams
man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off.
~ Rock Hudson
Clever name by the way Basil Pearl, spicy and cultured, sweet jewels with a twist of savory." ~ Ron Shaw, The Ron Shaw Show
~ Ron Shaw
Don't be too obvious about it.
~ Auliq Ice
You and Teacher," said Molly. "Yes," said Peter. "She's very clever. You'll like her." "I'm sure," said Molly.
~ Dave Barry
Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.
~ Anita Shreve
I would say there's a spark, I told her, still caught up in that fixed look, her green eyes with their clever gleam. I would say you'd make a hell of a Boy Scout. Boy Scout? Yes, ma'am, cause you keep rubbing that stick, you're gonna get a lot more than a spark. I'm hoping for that.
~ Scott Turow
The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!" Alek tried not to laugh. "Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?" "Don't try to be clever, young man." She narrowed her eyes. "It's elephants all the way down!
~ Scott Westerfeld
Alek: Am I that obvious? Deryn: No. Im just dead clever.
~ Scott Westerfeld
The difference here 'twixt simple and witty folk, if the truth be known, is that your plain man cares much for what stand ye take and not a fart for why ye take it, while your smart wight leaves ye whate'er stand ye will, sobeit ye defend it cleverly.
~ John Barth
Everything is just a mess, Friend, be clever! Fifty years from now Other people will be alive.
~ John Biggins
they were "very clever in inventing reasons" for a sudden rise or fall in stock prices,
~ John Brooks
One of de la Vega's observations about the Amsterdam traders was that they were "very clever in inventing reasons" for a sudden rise or fall in stock prices,
~ John Brooks
and conniving where he was clever.
~ John Connolly
You always complain," Gene said. "Every hand. Which leads me to believe, you clever beast, that it's some kind of psychological stratagem.
~ John DeChancie
Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.
~ Paulo Coelho
Now "public opinion" stood out as a force that must be managed, and not through clever guesswork but by experts trained to do that all-important job.
~ Edward L. Bernays
A clever makes either money or gains self publicity via support to online product promotion campaign; the duffers either vote or share it without own gain.
~ Anuj Somany
A person whose mind changes over time about the type of people s/he admires is just clever not kind to find cunningly own benefits only from others.
~ Anuj Somany
A person's thought can not be crafty, cunning and clever unless and until there is a slot of selfishness in the soul and the clot of ego in the heart to distort or rot his/her mind.
~ Anuj Somany