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But Louis XIV had clever ministers, mainly men of humble origin chosen for their outstanding ability.
— E.H. Gombrich
Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.
— William Gaddis
Sarcasm is a bad mood trying to be clever,
— Sylvie Granotier
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
— Gautama Buddha
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
— Israel Zangwill
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
— Jane Goodall
Clever is as clever does.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
He doesn't know as much as he thinks," Preservation whispered. "That is his weakness. The . . . weakness . . . of all clever men
— Brandon Sanderson
Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.
— Arundhati Roy
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
— Allison Anders
A clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is.
— Patrick Rothfuss
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
— Hugh Laurie
Authors are known to have fiendishly clever minds, and the authors of children's books are more fiendishly clever than most. What
— Alan Bradley
It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.
— Christopher Strachey
Always schedule your comeback.
— Brooke Bida
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
The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan.
— Maximilian Kolbe
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
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 holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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
A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.
— C.S. Lewis
The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.
— Malcolm McDowell
The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)
— Jean-Yves Leloup
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
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
I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It's clever, but is it art?
— Rudyard Kipling
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
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
— Arnold Bennett
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
No government likes the clever and the honourable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
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
Some people are so clever there's just no hope for them.
— Marty Rubin
Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
— Virginia Woolf
Words from the past: It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.
— Robert Breault
where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.
— Henry Moore
In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.
— James Denney
Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
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