Quotes About Clever

New Yorkers are smart.

There is no point going man-to-man with a player of Messi's ability. He is so clever he would drag your player all over the pitch and still find a way to destroy you, probably exploiting the hole you've left by assigning someone to that role.

She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him.

I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she'd make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn't piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had

What the devil's wrong with devious? Devious gets the job done, doesn't it?

Part of the Gen X irony fixation was the result of so much accepted obviousness: When you made a TV show about the seventies, you could just call it That '70s Show . Was that title clever, or was that title lazy? It was impossible to know.

She did in her own heart infinitely prefer boobies to clever men who wrote dissertations.

Il était malin, celui qui a inventé ce truc-là

Good triumphed this afternoon, didn't it?" "That, my friend, was a miracle." "And a clever bit of design to hide you up there," said Manet as he gazed up at the painting. "Even

Say something cheesy now and that was it, you were the class suck-up, say something clever and you were the smart-ass, say something stupid and you were forever stupid.

dropped his master's head upon the floor with a pretty loud crash, and then, without an effort to lift it up, gazed upon the bystanders, as if he had done something rather clever than otherwise.

Honey, tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic.

In the end, Pep won most of the doubters over with a clever ploy, a few well-chosen words and a single bold decision.

You're too clever to be a soldier." Then she shook her head. "Don't say it. I know. We need our soldiers to be clever. I do know." "Thank you," he murmured. "You can do all of the conversation. Make it easier for me.

Her mother used to call her erimitsu, "clever one" in their own dialect... Kasia had a reputation already that made her almost unmarriageable at home. Too clever by half, and too thin by more than that in a tribe where women were valued for full hips and soft figures -- promise of comfort in the long cold and children easily birthed.

younger son of a merchant? What was his life about? Trade? Clever, profitable dealings? He was from a city-state that flourished by letting no one hate them enough to do anything disagreeable. Where you are situated in the world

Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.

The smart cat doesn't let on that he is.

learn to think smart, stay one step ahead of the game instead of having the game bite us in the ass." Or

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.