Clever Quotes
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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.
Euripides
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It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.
Thomas Sowell -
There is nothing Clever about not being Happy.
Arnaud Desjardins -
As a model, we come in the room, and we are casted just on our looks. I think I'm funny; I think I'm clever. But in the end, they're picking me for my cheekbones or if I'm tall enough.
Coco Rocha -
I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
Paul Weller Incognito -
He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
Madeleine de Souvre -
Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.
Adah Isaacs Menken
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But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.
Cressida Cowell -
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel -
You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row
Eddie Long -
If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
George Pell
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My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
Nico Rosberg -
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)
Ernest Rutherford -
If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle. These tend to be matters of design. I mean, we're seeing a lot of - it's very common to see Shakespeare with automatic weapons, things like that. They are clichés. They're new clichés, but they are clichés. And they're provincial. It's not clever to do Henry V, and have everybody dressed in United Nations soldier's costumes anymore. I've seen that one too. That kind of thing irritates me.
Terry Teachout -
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
Jane Austen -
They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
Wilt Chamberlain -
Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.
Nick Bostrom -
There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
Melissa Etheridge -
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
Norm MacDonald -
How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
Jane Austen