Clever Quotes

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

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

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.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

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.

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.

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.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

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.

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?

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.

Through 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.

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

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.