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Quotes About Clever

A self-seeker is clever to be aware that the people mostly want SUCCESS & HAPPINESS, so s/he would often speak about these 2 words only to retain them as clients to grow only own BUSINESS.
~ Anuj Somany
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
~ Aristophanes
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
~ Arnold Bennett
One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.
~ Chris Pine
It's Leo Messi. It's very difficult to stop this guy because he's very quick, very clever. But, look, it's not impossible.
~ Pedro
I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.
~ Miranda Otto
I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
~ Charli XCX
Rafiniert ist der Herr Hietschie, aber böshaft ist er nicht.
~ Frederik Pohl
88 One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For years we've had all the big-hitting HBO box-set dramas, all these brilliant, witty, clever shows, and in return the only thing we've had to offer is big period dramas like 'Downton Abbey'.
~ Alexander Armstrong
I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.
~ Mo Rocca
You can't just be crass without being witty. Angry crass is horrible.
~ Ali Wong
There is still a lot to be said for the well-made, witty, clever, three-act comedy.
~ Terry Teachout
Mark Watson and Paul Sinha have been exactly the same - very, very clever, and very, very thick.
~ Alex Horne
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
~ Geoff Mulgan
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
~ Rex Stout
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?
~ Rothschild
Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle.
~ Russell Rickford
In a fairy tale I would be one of the two stupid sisters who open the forbidden door and are shocked by the murdered wives, not the third, clever one who keeps to the essentials: presence of mind, foresight, the telling of watertight lies. I told lies but they were not watertight. My mind was not disciplined, as Arthur sometimes pointed out.
~ Margaret Atwood
We use butter, I said. When we can get it. Or margarine. A lot of the time it's margarine. Butter, he said, musing. That's very clever. Butter. He laughed. I could have slapped him.
~ Margaret Atwood
I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.
~ Tom Felton
In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.
~ James Denney
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
~ Iain Banks