Quotes About Clever

Well, you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're all fucking peasants As far as I can see

John Lennon once wrote: Well, you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're all fucking peasants As far as I can see

Verbal clashes seldom come to a satisfying end. They peter out in weak retorts that leave you wishing you'd been as clever in the moment as you are in reviewing the conversation later.

So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

No race on earth is as clever at being strangers as the British. They wrap themselves in formality, they withdraw behind veil after veil of exquisite politeness, they hide cunningly behind a bewildering array of carefully chosen façades—

Laughing, he held up his hands in mock surrender. "You're too clever. I can't fool you. I'm actually the reincarnation of Napoleon." "You can't be," she played along. "You're much too tall." "I took growth hormones between incarnations.

I like Lord Hugh very much. It's true that he can be a little eccentric, but he's terribly clever. And he's a very good shot." All eyes swung back to Frances. "He shot Cousin Daniel in the shoulder," Sarah reminded her. "He's a very good shot when he's sober," Frances clarified. "Daniel said so.

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

Mourinho is a fantastic manager, intelligent, clever. He is OK.

I always say that Religion and Politics are just clever ways to make un-content people content with their un-contentedness.

Still, he was being canny, and that was a good thing. All in all, she rather liked her policemen to be wily. It made her feel safer.

Simple. There are many clever, cunning and adept people who are risk averse. You are not risk averse because you are dedicated to becoming rich.

Show me how clever you can be, Faith.

When we preach or teach the Scriptures, we open the door for the Holy Spirit to do His work. God has not promised to bless oratory or clever preaching. He has promised to bless His Word.

The underlying principle of all Satan's tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

The storyteller is clever and masterful and has already decided exactly what he wants you to think and believe.

And she's striken with sudden nostalgia for the life she's been so eager to pack away, she wishes there was some way of being everything at once–grown and sure and clever, young and protected and new.

Thy soul, so learned and so clever (and for this I grieve much for thee), could never through these mysteries have reached its God; that is, the God by whom, not with whom, it was made, of whom it is not a part, but a work,—that God who is not the soul of all things, but who made every soul, and in whose light alone every soul is blessed, if it be not ungrateful for His grace.

A certain style of modern detective fiction might show our hero rushing to a terribly clever supposition by page sixteen and spending the rest of the novel proving himself right, but for your long-suffering actual policeman there is merely painstaking elimination and solid detective work, which means questioning every possible suspect.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.