Quotes About Clever

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

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

I was clever in a severely limited sense

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

Clever wordplay engenders grudging appreciation in your peers, but surprise wordplay gives birth to laughter. We smile at wit. We laugh at jokes.

Since comedy encourages the audience to suspend disbelief, humorists can take advantage of every opportunity to stretch the truth. In other circumstances, unmitigated exaggeration would be viewed as lying. In humor, clever exaggeration is rewarded with laughter.

My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.

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

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

When I was young, I admired people who were clever. Now that I am old, I admire people who are kind.

It had been a clever deception from the very beginning.

Has anyone ever pointed out that you're too clever by half?" "It's been mentioned. Why do you think I'm a spinster?

and Alexander was nothing if not resourceful. He had had the legs of her chair cut down.

The release of nuclear energy is an event comparable to the first fire kindled by prehistoric man -- though there is no modern Prometheus but teams of clever yet less heroic fellows, useless as inspiration for epic poetry.

Between a stupid fascist and an intelligent fascist, prefer the intelligent one, because there is always a chance to persuade the clever one about the mistakes of his actions! There is no such a chance for stupid and ignorant fascist!

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!