Clever Quotes

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

To 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.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

The 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.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

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

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

It's clever, but is it Art?

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

Obviously 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.