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But Louis XIV had clever ministers, mainly men of humble origin chosen for their outstanding ability. — E.H. Gombrich

He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one. — Helen Smith

God is clever, but not dishonest. — Albert Einstein

I know you do not think very highly of me, but in some circles, I'm quite the thing. — Jessie Clever

Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave! — Geraldine McCaughrean

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Kids are clever and full of fun but, oh, they can be a terrible nuisance! — Alice Provensen

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right. — J.M. Barrie

She was dark, thin, healthy, good-looking, clever, ambitious, rich, unsatisfied, perhaps unscrupulous - but not without a conscience. — Anthony Trollope

It's easy to poke fun at the world and think yourself clever, but it's much harder to stand silent and endure. — Jessica Cluess

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters. — Aaron Sorkin

I'm not trying to put you down, but even if I did, you'd have nowhere to go. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them. — Wilkie Collins

Yeah I am stupid, as a wiseman I don't think I am a clever, but as far I see stupid people count themselves as smart and clever. — Deyth Banger

At least if I
was picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever. — C.E. Murphy

I know it sounds calculating, but if you're not cute, you might as well be clever. — David Sedaris

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight. — Catherynne M Valente

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. — Paula Poundstone

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. — Sun Tzu

I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever. — Sue Townsend

Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever. — W.S. Gilbert

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college. — G.H. Hardy

I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care to have breakfast with. — W. Somerset Maugham

It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever. — Jacob Burckhardt

Richness and fat does need,
In logic clever fine deeds,
But paunches never do breed,
Fine thoughts or sublime seeds.
[45] - 2 — Munindra Misra

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful. — Julian Barnes

And wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not. — Edith Wharton

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all. — Robert Harris

But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever. — A.A. Milne

I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way — Victoria Beckham

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober. — Winston Churchill

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it — Robert Montgomery

Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Aesop fable. "You can play the clever fox all you want - but you'll never get the grapes that way. — Rolf Dobelli

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data. — Peter Norvig

Admitting your mistakes makes you humble. But not repeating your mistakes makes you clever. — Sarvesh Jain

She was a stubborn English lass, but he was a clever Scot. — Victoria Roberts

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. — Arthur Wellesley

My mind is so clever, but it does me no favors. — Anonymous

Call it what you like, my lady, but it is still spying. — Jessie Clever

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through. — Patrick Demarchelier

The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl! — Peter Hoeg

It's been a long time since I've seen you, Palmer. But you're just the same, only more so. — L.M. Montgomery

I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?"
Steppa laughs. "Folks with other things to do? — Emma Donoghue

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes. — M.C. Beaton

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

Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit. — Bear Grylls

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient. — Shawn Hatosy

Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man. — John Steinbeck

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Clever men are good, but they are not the best. — Thomas Carlyle

Very clever but dumb at shoothing... dumb as a person but clever at shooting. That's LOGIC! — Deyth Banger

His eyesight wasn't as keen as it had been, but he knew a changing mind when he saw it. — Bebe Moore Campbell

You're a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half. — Shaun Hick

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful! — Friedrich Nietzsche

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press. — Barbara Corcoran

But you didn't die."
"Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years. — Scott Lynch

Getting a Lady is easy, but keeping a Lady is clever. — Pontius Joseph

What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind? — Crystal Woods

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift. — Rory Bremner

Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it. — Gary L. Graybill

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever. — Tom Stoppard

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle

Creativity is different than cleverness. Clever things are often fun, but usually shallow and short lived. Creativity is deeper. — Ted Keller

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong? — Cassandra Clare

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness. — Tobias Hill

Solya may not be wicked, but he likes to be too clever for everyone's good. — Naomi Novik

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. — Rudyard Kipling

Words from the past: It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you. — Robert Breault

That, Eddie thought, was an exceedingly clever reply. Roland had said I can't answer ... but that wasn't the same thing as I don't know. Far from it. — Stephen King

It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring. — Hanif Kureishi

I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard. — Wendi Deng Murdoch

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. — Euripides

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal
stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life. — T.H. White

But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another. — Victor Hugo

I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards. — Tove Jansson

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. — Toni Morrison

It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. — Helen Walton

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. — Margot Asquith

My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever ... But you're a good man. And very clever ... . You will get through ... . — Ford Madox Ford

It's clever, but is it art? — Rudyard Kipling

He left behind several failed careers, two failed marriages, and a reputation as a clever but fairly annoying fellow. — Steve Sheinkin

You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work. — Amit Kalantri

But he has a clever way of getting answers with carefully worded statements. — Lauren DeStefano

It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick — Lisa Kleypas

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism. — Oscar Wilde

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. — Sun Tzu

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

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. — J.B. Priestley

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
better. — Paul Halmos

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. — Kenneth Grahame

But what little I'd heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable. — Neal Stephenson

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