Quotes About Clever

I am not a bad actor but a smart actor and I have exhausted my smartness now.

I may be clever, she thought, quite sadly, but I'm not in the least kind or sympathetic.

My impression," said the King, "was that Howl is an unprincipled, slippery rogue with a glib tongue and a clever mind. Would you agree?

What makes it noteworthy is that a striking coincidence has made it a cleverer trick than they could have known. For the book is a rather silly story about a governess and two haunted children. I am afraid that in it Mr. James exposes the extent of his ignorance. He knows little about children and nothing at all about governesses

Sapient'? Whatever is that?" " 'Tis a clever word meaning wise. Which is a thing you would know if you was sapient yourself.

Brunetti had once come across the term 'compassion fatigue', but thought that the oh-so-clever press had got it wrong, and the term should really be, 'horror fatigue'.

I might have been slight-but I was smart and cagey.

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting.

I shall never be completely happy at it, for I shall never be able to do much thinking myself—and I have been just clever enough, in my youth, to mistrust everyone who tries to think for me.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

Clever is getting out of a sticky situation, wise is not getting into a sticky situation, you may not always be clever enough.

They look witless and dull, which lulls their enemies, but they are clever. They will remember your face.

Its king, Peleus, was one of those men whom the gods love: not divine himself, but clever, brave, handsome, and excelling all his peers in piety.

I came to see that Penelope was twice as clever as her cousins and just as beautiful. So—" "As beautiful as Helen?" Diomedes interrupted. "Is that why she was twenty and unmarried?

People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

She's an absolute idiot!" she added with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.

Will Hamilton was a very substantial businessman. No one knew exactly how many pies his thumb had explored, but it was known that he was a clever and comparatively rich man.

Mr. Edwards was essentially a simple man, but even a simple man has complexities which are dark and twisted. Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade

Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.

I crave the gift of recreational shallowness. The trick of knowing when to be cleverly trivial, lightweight; when to avoid emotional excess.