Quotes About Clever

Brian and Lizzie were both really smart. Really quick. Plain basic types like Janie and Reeve could always get cornered.

You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, anything . Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Eliza Bennett is just one of the brightest girls I have ever met.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

The clever men at OxfordKnow all that there is to be knowed.But they none of them know one half as muchAs intelligent Mr. Toad!

I'm such a clever Toad.

The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

work on contributing a clever piece of computer code to an Open Source project.

Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

Cruel, Clever Cat. Sally, having swallowed cheese, Directs down holes the scented breeze, Enticing thus with baited breath Nice mice to an untimely death.

But I had no gift for making friends, although I was often attracted by people the very opposite of myself; especially by little, clever, quick, but not too familiar men; but even if they were disposed to make advances, a miserable shyness and stiffness of manner on my part, that I could not help, would raise a barrier of ice between us.

Oh wow, now that was a clever comeback. He'd surely drop to his knees and bow before my intellectual brilliance.

Control your horse!" Jim snarled. " You control your horse." Oh wow, now that was a clever comeback. He'd surely drop to his knees and bow before my intellectual brilliance.

A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever.

All my friends make really small, naturalistic, dialogue-heavy movies, so I'm kind of used to that. I didn't want my movie to be rambly and I didn't want it to be cutesy, or quirky, or clever.

I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

If all of this makes orchids seem smart—well, they do seem smart. There is something clever and un-plantlike about their determination to survive and their knack for useful deception and their genius for seducing human beings for hundreds and hundreds of years.

And she's very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

Everyone has their reservations, naturally. You being from the coal district. But I said, and this was very clever of me, I said, 'Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls!'" Effie beams at us so brilliantly that we have no choice but to respond