Quotes About Clever

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?

Some thought he was quite wicked, but in truth, he was no more or less than any other crow: enamored of bright new things, and too clever to get them by the usual path.

That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.

A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.

Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?

A major part of the explanation is that the missionary father has a wife who is also a missionary, just as well educated as he is. The children cannot escape being intelligent, and because the family is so poor, the children have to be clever about money. What a combination

I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication.

Uncle Dave Macon was a great balladeer and banjo player from the early part of the 19th century... He would take a social problem or something that he was looking at and make up a clever little song about it, you know, in a language everyone understood, a man of the people.

A reveal should be unexpected and clever.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

I know a number of clever people who lack wisdom.

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

My humour is spot on.

I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Malus: 'You look like a person with doubts.' Zoe: 'I wonder sometimes if any of this is real - or is it just a business, selling hope to people who can't afford it?' Malus: 'Clever people have been asking that question since the iron age, Zoe. The answer remains the same.' Zoe: 'And... ?' Malus: 'Business is good.' (A dialogue regarding the Church between a demon and a human.)