Clever Quotes

• I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Very
  • Curious
  • Gifted

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Pet

• I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Death
  • Sick
  • Nowadays

• Too clever is dumb.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dumb
  • Clever
  • Too

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Simple

• When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • World
  • Movie
  • Smart

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understand
  • Word
  • Saying

• Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  

  Rumi
  • Change
  • Wise
  • Clever

• Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Unique
  • Survival
  • Clever

• I would've loved to dress Diana Vreeland. I just loved her work as a creative woman and as a business woman - unpredictable, exciting, fun, and very, very clever.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Work
  • Business
  • Fun

• It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Listen
  • Talk

• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mother

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Hardest

• I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

  

  Jojo Moyes
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Eyes

• What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.

  

  Ngaio Marsh
  • Mind
  • Parents
  • Words

• I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Make
  • Temptation
  • Resist

• Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • May
  • Past
  • Clever

• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Problem
  • Person
  • Wise

• The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Miracle
  • Clever

• When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Children
  • Girl
  • Short

• A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Laughter
  • Gift
  • Envy

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