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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

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

You're too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They — Neil Gaiman

Sarcasm is a bad mood trying to be clever, — Sylvie Granotier

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. — William Whitelaw

Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle. — Russell J. Rickford

I am very clever. I am sure and could figure it out and shazam! Tomasz saves the world again. — Patrick Ness

Killers are clever, victims are the people which are scare from the negativity. That's how it goes and it will go. — Deyth Banger

Behind every clever man is an even cleverer woman. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. — George R R Martin

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now. — Jo Walton

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. — Israel Zangwill

You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson. — Jay Nordlinger

It took a clever man to figure out a way to make a profit off his bad habits. — Joe Hill

I had a dream about you. I licked your cone of ice cream. It was envelope flavored. — Melody Sohayegh

Wise people make trails and paths, clever walk on them - stupid people can't decide. — Deyth Banger

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out. — Peter Redgrove

Clever is as clever does. — Tony DiTerlizzi

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

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation — Dalai Lama

He doesn't know as much as he thinks," Preservation whispered. "That is his weakness. The . . . weakness . . . of all clever men — Brandon Sanderson

You still said things like that then, still bothered trying to be clever. — Nic Kelman

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever. — Arundhati Roy

Luke Jermay is as devious as he's clever, and he's a Master at complication - with this take on TTTCBE he might just fool the Devil ... — Roberto Giobbi

Anna: Since my opening last year...I'm disgusting.
Larry: You're phenomenal. You're so clever. — Patrick Marber

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are. — Billy Joel

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven — Josh Billings

He likes to think of himself as someone who can give quick clever answers to awkward questions. It is an important part of his self-esteem. — Glenn Haybittle

Too clever is dumb. — Ogden Nash

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. — Irving Layton

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. — Holly Black

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know. — Groucho Marx

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are. — Yoko Ono

There's always a way out for those clever enough to find it. -Athena — Rick Riordan

Graham's life is as tense as an overstretched simile. — Zane Stumpo

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. — Gore Vidal

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool. — John Lennon

Clever, smart and wise people have one in common that they read quotes, they are curious for knowledge and they have big libraries! — Deyth Banger

You've met our guards." He gestured at the silent cylindrical guide. "The secret warriors: the binja. — China Mieville

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

For the clever and lucky, all roads are open! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off. — Rock Hudson

My wit is only as stupid as the audience. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch. — Mark Twain

Authors are known to have fiendishly clever minds, and the authors of children's books are more fiendishly clever than most. What — Alan Bradley

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

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. — Daniel Kahneman

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market. — Hugh Laurie

Good Poem

Sit,
lay down,
roll over,
here's
your treat. — Kristen Henderson

Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer. — Lilian Jackson Braun

Impatience makes fools of clever men... — R.A. Scotti

Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours. — W. Ian Thomas

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. — Arnold Bennett

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life. — Paul Hoffman

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

ABOYNE (vb.)
To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him. — Douglas Adams

Plain girls who were also clever were a ha'pence a dozen. — Julie Anne Long

No government likes the clever and the honourable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010. — Viviane Reding

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me. — John Mayer

You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown. — Ljupka Cvetanova

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? — Brian Kernighan

I'm very clever
at
hiding poems
perhaps more
clever than I
am
at
writing
them. — Charles Bukowski

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

Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever. — Anonymous

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

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

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

She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever. — Sylvia Plath

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. — Elizabeth Peters

Maybe the clever people are not the ones who think they're clever. Maybe the clever people are the ones who accept that they know nothing. — Rachel Joyce

You're impossible," she told him.
"Of course I am," he answered. "It's part of my charm. — David Eddings

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

Satan didn't lose any of his beguiling ways when he became the fallen prince. He took his charm, his subtleties, and his clever plots to use on us. — Billy Graham

Always schedule your comeback. — Brooke Bida

P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever. — Jeff Bezos

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am. — Hugh Laurie

Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is — Lesley Downer

Democracy is when two stupid has more rights than clever one. — Myself

In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful. — James Denney

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified. — Virginia Woolf

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. — Norm MacDonald

where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true. — Anita Shreve

An aspersion upon my parts of speech! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is". — J.L. Austin

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore

Some people are so clever there's just no hope for them. — Marty Rubin

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

Never try to have the last word. You might get it. — Robert A. Heinlein