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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

The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war. — Laozi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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