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Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best. — Confucius

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something. — Brandon Sanderson

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all. — Criss Jami

There is a world of difference between being clever and being right. — Ian Driscoll

There is nothing Clever about not being Happy — Arnaud Desjardins

Don't just create content to get credit for being clever - create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your target audience. — David Ogilvy

You enjoy being clever, don't you?" "It happens so rarely that I relish the moments when I am. — Joshua Roots

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. — C.S. Lewis

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again. — Gillian Flynn

I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time. — Courtney Milan

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote some one who is. — Mary Pettibone Poole

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can. — Christopher Strachey

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful. — Ian McEwan

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right. — Donald A. Norman

A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'. — Robert A. Heinlein

Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself. It is not always their faults. — E. Nesbit

He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning. — Louise Penny

I said that I wasn't clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn't clever. That was just being observant. — Mark Haddon

Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly. — Natalya Vorobyova

To be rude is as good as being clever. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain

Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things. — James Dashner

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever. — Christopher Strachey

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2) — Brandon Sanderson

Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all. — John Connolly

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural. — Sienna Miller

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess. — Ken Livingstone

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living. — Mark Helprin

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football. — John Carlin

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. — Mark Haddon

Thinking of something to say is difficult when you want to be perceived as clever! — Lorraine Reguly

You want to make an impression. Being clever helps. — Leonard Maltin

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success — Malcolm McLaren

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre. — Ann Coulter

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