Clever Quotes

• In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Good
  • Past
  • Law

• I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • Clever
  • Bee

• What I've found over the years working on various projects is, you can have a clever book or clever tagline, but there has to be a story to go along with it that leads to something bigger. Something with a little more texture to it.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Book
  • Clever

• Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • She
  • Fool
  • Clever

• Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

  

  Billie Piper
  • She
  • Clever

• There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before - you've just got to try to think it all over again.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Clever

• Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.

  

  Jimmy Doolittle
  • People
  • Support
  • Enemy

• What beats me - it always does - is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Perfect
  • Fool
  • Clever

• Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Forever
  • Clever

• It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

  

  Jake Barton
  • Simple
  • Meaningful
  • Clever

• Prince Charles has doomed himself by so clearly wanting to be thought clever and cultured: the clever, cultured people don't buy it, and the people don't want a clever, cultured ruler.

  

  James Hawes
  • People
  • Clever
  • Prince

• Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Men
  • Mistake
  • Fool

• Jeet Kune Do rejects all restrictions imposed by form and formality and emphasizes the clever use of the mind and body to defend and attack.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Mind
  • Clever

• 'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Clever

• I find strong roles really interesting. Usually, that means the character is also clever.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.

  

  Jonathan LaPaglia
  • American
  • Clever

• Mark Jones is mad as a hatter. But, he's great. He's really, really into music. I know he's married and he's got two wonderful children, but his life is music. And he's very clever with it.

  

  Susan Ann Sulley The Human League
  • Life
  • Music
  • Clever

• An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Clever

• Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater good. Our manners, our tastes, our declarations are welcomed. Superior for life. Except when we're not. Except when we're dismissed or denounced as envious or petty, as derivatives and dependents by nature. Second class for life.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Nature

• The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

  

  Louise Brown
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Passion

• Cecil Forrester was heir to many misfortunes, being handsome, rich, high-born, and clever.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • High
  • Clever

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