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I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things. — Hugh Laurie

I think people are much the same wherever you go. Some of them good, some of them clever, and some of them with the devil in them. — Deanna Raybourn

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions. — William Gaddis

I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas. — Terry Pratchett

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in ... Good people make you look good. — Maggie Tabberer

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs. — PZ Myers

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. — Gautama Buddha

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

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

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

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity. — Doris Lessing

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

I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much. — Miuccia Prada

I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise. — Ala Bashir

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. — John Major

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work. — Seth Godin

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

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. — Jane Austen

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. — George Bernard Shaw

There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things. — Anthony Trollope

For a world full of universities, brilliant people and clever corporations it sure is a pit of hell and sorrow for billions. What's missing? — Bryant McGill

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

I ... am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever
& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled. — Jane Austen

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. — Jerome K. Jerome

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

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

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

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be. — Laozi

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. — Amy Tan

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement — Clement Attlee

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The throne we honour is the people's choice. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs ... like custom officers. — Jack Dee

Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them. — Mike Brown

Like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognize danger, you alone are the only one clever enough ... — J.K. Rowling

Think of something clever, witty or profound, keep it short and people may quote you. — Bobby Darnell

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia — Mikhail Bulgakov

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. — Emil Nolde

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified. — Virginia Woolf

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts. — Kelly Brook

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

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. — Gilbert Parker

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping. — Marc Jacobs

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel

He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid. — Terry Pratchett

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever. — Bindi Irwin

Why do people always quote hamlet when they want to seem clever? — Alan Bradley

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

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

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

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night — Otto Von Bismarck

When clever people ask me where
I get a poem, I despair. — Robert Frost

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

Only an ignorant man can see another ignorant as a clever man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it. — Denise Mina

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. — Kurt Vonnegut

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. — Ed Furgol

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. — A. N. Wilson

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Curious make you clever, that most people aren't curious it's their problem. — Deyth Banger

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all. — Stephen Leacock

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists. — Peter McWilliams

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. — Thomas Carlyle

I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it. — Karl Pilkington

I'm suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world — Salma Hayek

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. — Oscar Wilde

The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic. — Malcolm McDowell

Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body. — Stefan Emunds

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop — Ben Aaronovitch

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche

As long as people see him as dumb, tought guy, they don't notice the more clever things he does. — Neal Shusterman

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

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

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them — Walter Kerr

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas. — Virginia Woolf

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever. — David Beckham