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Quotes About Clever

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.
~ David Sedaris
Zis David Suchet, he zinks he knows me, but, of course, he does not. He is clever, but I am brilliant.
~ David Suchet
It's the cleverest thing I have ever seen,' she pronounced. 'At first glance, you look like any other countrywoman, but you can move like a man in it.' 'I can move like a scientist,' I corrected. 'And that is more to the point.
~ Deanna Raybourn
If he is this good at acting crazy, it's because he is.
~ Jean Baudrillard
the disguise. Back in the main hall, Mr. Dart helped Stanley climb up into the empty picture frame. Stanley was able to stay in place because Mr. Dart had cleverly put four small spikes in the wall, one for each hand and foot. The frame was a perfect fit. Against the wall, Stanley looked just like a picture. "Except for one thing," Mr. Dart said. "Shepherdesses are supposed to look happy. They smile at their sheep and at the sky. You look fierce, not happy, Stanley.
~ Jeff Brown
I am cunning folk, and can be no other.
~ Elizabeth Lee
Schmidt is a canny little kobold.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Pious" is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.
~ Alireza Salehi Nejad
Hugo Strange is interesting in the sense that he's a master manipulator. He doesn't really engage Batman in any sort of physical way. His weapon is his mind, and he's very incisive and clever: he reads people and sizes them up almost instantly.
~ Paul Dini
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
~ Jose Maria Aznar
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.
~ Linda Colley
You don't need to be fast if you're clever in your positioning, and that's exactly what Mark Noble is.
~ Jermaine Jenas
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
~ Dan Stevens
He's extremely clever and I learn always so much when I fight with Lewis. He always knows exactly what you are going to do next with his experience, and that's what makes him so good on track with the battles. He's not very aggressive, always very correct, but always very good to anticipate what you are going to do.
~ Charles Leclerc
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
~ Saul Alinsky
Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
~ Mary Beard
The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that agenda is seeming clever and/or taking someone who has received more than her fair share of attention down a notch.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
~ Wilson Mizner
I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. Most of my family is in medicine, actually. They are all too clever to be doing what I do.
~ Will Poulter
Money is strange, too, if you haven't used it for a while. Hell is mostly a barter economy. Especially among the high and mighty, having to buy something is a massive social faux pas. It means that you don't have anything good enough to trade or you aren't clever enough to swindle your way to your heart's desire. Brad Pitt's wad seemed like a fortune when I counted it, but I blow through most of it in a couple of hours.
~ Richard Kadrey
Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—
~ Richelle Mead
Cool'," said Adrian. "'Wind.' I see what you did there, Sage. Pretty clever.
~ Richelle Mead