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Quotes About Clever

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever chocolate-saving technique.
~ Mitch Hedberg
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
~ Saki, Reginald
Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference.
~ Kerry E. Wagner
Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
~ Thomas Carlyle
My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.
~ Jane Austen
I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.
~ Janna Levin
The articles said variously that the code had been cracked by "FBI cryptographers" or "a check with the Navy." Hoover himself wrote about the Doll Lady in The American Magazine, calling her "one of the cleverest woman operators I have encountered. Cultured, businesslike, cunning, and, despite her 45 years of age, most attractive
~ Jason Fagone
P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself.
~ Edith Wharton
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
~ Albert Schweitzer
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
~ Alexander Pope
I like poems that are little games.
~ Peter Davison
I love Pico Iyer's 'A Beginner's Guide to Japan', which again is not about Korea, but so full of clever observations from the point of view of a foreigner in a new city, it's just delightful.
~ Michelle Zauner
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
~ Margot Asquith
I've always been accused of being too clever for my own good.
~ Denny Laine
Ancelotti is very clever, very clever.
~ Gennaro Gattuso
The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
~ Samuel West
Louis CK is so brilliant and smart and clever and funny and also very bizarre.
~ Bill Skarsgard
My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
~ C. Thomas Howell
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
~ Margot Asquith
I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.
~ Sienna Miller
I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.
~ Maiwenn