Clever Quotes

• I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Rest

• Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Quality
  • Stupid
  • Clever

• Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

  

  Brian Kernighan
  • Writing
  • Clever

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

  

  Livy
  • Men
  • Clever

• I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Good
  • Music
  • Clever

• The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick.

  

  Jojo Moyes
  • Done
  • May
  • Death

• Social media teams can and do launch clever campaigns, but game-changing Social Business initiatives are typically driven by management teams.

  

  Clara Shih
  • Business
  • Game
  • Management

• The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.'

  

  John Scalzi
  • Failure
  • Clever
  • Asshole

• There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • World
  • High

• Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that are just clever and well executed; polish doesn't impress me, and I don't care about a merely capable sentence. Life is short; I want a confrontation with high art. I want soul.

  

  C.E. Morgan
  • Life
  • Art
  • Experience

• I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • People
  • Art
  • Simple

• Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Military
  • Clever

• I fell into conversation with Douglas. His is a split personality. À deux he is delightful; clever, funny, observant, drily cynical. But get him anywhere near 'display mode', particularly if there are officials around, and he might as well have a corncob up his arse. Pompous, trite, high-sounding, cautiously guarded.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Up
  • High
  • Funny

• Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Clever

• Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Clever

• And we're going, 'Oh, Captain Clever! Whoa-ho-ho! Rattle it, and if it doesn't go off, it can't be a bomb!'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Clever

• I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

  

  Amy Childs
  • People
  • Art
  • Amazing

• Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Character
  • Song
  • Singing

• 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

• This agreement should be a wake-up call to all those in the entertainment industry who think outrageousness is a clever marketing strategy.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Up
  • Marketing
  • Industry

• It is better to have a retarded president who respects human values than a clever government without human values.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Clever

• He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • Clever

• I have clients from 19 to 80 years old, and the way I work means that they can take the same dress and shorten, lengthen it, remove the sleeve, adjust details - and make it their own. They get a piece that is right for them. It's a clever way of shopping in this economy.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Work
  • Shopping
  • Clever

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