Clever Quotes
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
Tags: Call, Joke ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceTake from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Tags: Hated, Reputation ✍ Author: Winston ChurchillThis is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.
Tags: Cheat, System ✍ Author: Charles DavenportIf you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
✍ Author: Benjamin DisraeliNine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Tags: Books, Nonsense ✍ Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
Tags: Breath, Cheese ✍ Author: W. C. FieldsI think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
Tags: Poor, Stupid ✍ Author: Norm MacDonaldNo man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Tags: Enough, Evil ✍ Author: Francois de La RochefoucauldMan is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Tags: Animal, Imbecile ✍ Author: Albert SchweitzerFind enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Tags: Enough, Write ✍ Author: George Bernard ShawWhat a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Tags: Common, Sense ✍ Author: Tila TequilaObviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
Tags: Calm, Social ✍ Author: Lech WalesaClever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Tags: Cleverness, Tolerate ✍ Author: Henri Frederic AmielHe's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Tags: Head, Sometimes ✍ Author: Margot AsquithAppeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
Tags: Policy, Today ✍ Author: Jose Maria AznarThat was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
Tags: Spanish, Thought ✍ Author: Les BaxterModeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity.
Tags: Keep, Physical ✍ Author: Gelila BekeleVisit partners pages
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
Tags: May, Swift ✍ Author: Rory BremnerFor sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
Tags: Beautiful, Funny ✍ Author: Jilly CooperI had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
Tags: Nightmare, Producers ✍ Author: John CrowleyI hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
Tags: Hate, Officers ✍ Author: Jack DeeThe key for me is movement. When the ball comes into the box, or when the wide players get it, that's where I have to be clever and make my runs. That's where I come alive.
Tags: Alive, Key ✍ Author: Jermain DefoeThe competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Tags: Full, Humility ✍ Author: Edsger DijkstraBuying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.
Tags: Cheap, Crime ✍ Author: Ines de La FressangeI would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.
Tags: Create, Image ✍ Author: Ellie GouldingThe clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
Tags: Half, Men ✍ Author: Kenneth GrahameI understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?
Tags: Economy, Understand ✍ Author: Jennifer GranholmWhen I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Tags: Old, Young ✍ Author: Abraham Joshua HeschelThrough clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Tags: Hell, Life ✍ Author: Adolf HitlerA culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
Tags: Culture, Guilt ✍ Author: Jonathan KozolWhenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
Tags: Mistake, Song ✍ Author: Alison KraussTo be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
Tags: Boy, Head ✍ Author: Hugh LaurieWhen you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Tags: Argue, Convince ✍ Author: Irving LaytonIf a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Tags: Film, Freedom ✍ Author: Patrice LeconteAn inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
Tags: Host, Virus ✍ Author: James LovelockIn the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.
Tags: Forgot, Love ✍ Author: John MayerI was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
Tags: Five, Kids ✍ Author: Anthony MinghellaCalvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
Tags: Pictures, Worked ✍ Author: Kate MossI never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
Tags: Mistakes, Stupid ✍ Author: John PeelMy dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
Tags: Dad, Great ✍ Author: Nico RosbergA clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
Tags: Minds, Open ✍ Author: Percy RossEducate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Tags: Men, Religion ✍ Author: Arthur WellesleyClever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
Tags: Cheap, Mass ✍ Author: Cornel WestThe idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.
Tags: Actor, Idea ✍ Author: Samuel WestDon't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Tags: Audience, Obvious ✍ Author: Billy WilderThe really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
Tags: Lawyers ✍ Author: A. N. WilsonFoursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
Tags: Game, Social ✍ Author: Fred Wilson