Quotes About Clever

Calling this 'The Trial Of Christine Keeler' is clever because it's a re-examination of Christine's life and the trials and tribulations that she went through including the court trial. We as a society are so quick to judge, and no one has been judged quite as much as she has.

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little."He meant a liar.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.

I bristle again. I have never liked being called clever, especially by residents of the paler nation. It never quite means the same thing as intelligent or even bright, but carries instead an intimation of a low animal cunning. Perhaps the semiotician in me overreacts in assuming that conversations are racially charged; but so many conversations are.

Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.

I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.

Gujaratis are smart people.

I'm intrigued by smart people.

how I would hate the reputation of being clever at writing but stupid and useless at everything else! I would rather be stupid at both than to choose to employ my good qualities as badly as that.

He's clever, thought Ivan. You have to admit, there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia. No denying that!

I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.

I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.

At least if I was picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever.

That's my clever girl.

You are very clever, said the old man shyly. I would like to eat your brains, one day. For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, You're so sweet I could gobble you all up! but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for It's very kind of you to say so.

I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas.

You are very clever, said the old man shyly. I would like to eat your brains, one day.

Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards—not not doing magic because they couldn't do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn't. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn't been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

The law, as manipulated by clever and highly respected rascals, still remains the best avenue for a career of honourable and leisurely plunder.

When done right, it's possible to be silly and subversive at the same time.

Analytic philosophy is an intellectual pastime for people who are clever but do not want to think seriously.