Quotes about clever
Jennifer Ellison -
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
Michel Houellebecq -
Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.
Criss Jami - Venus in Arms
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.
Jacqueline Bisset -
I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.
Kenneth Grahame -
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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!
Aleksandra Ninkovic - Write like no one is reading
It's an easy guess, why some get famous over night and not during the day.
Nenia Campbell - Cloak and Dagger
What a joke, coming from a woman who worked for the fashion industry. Really. Starving yourself to fit into a size zero — why did that size even exist? Zero referred to the absence of something, but what did it mean in terms of a model's measurements? Her fat? Or her presence? How much could you cut away before the person herself vanished? It was hypocritical, that's what it was. I said as much, adding, “If you're so keen on me being healthy then you should have no problem accepting me for the w
Aleksandra Ninkovic - Better to be able to love than to be loveable
I'm not trying to put you down, but even if I did, you'd have nowhere to go.
Amanda Mosher - Better to be able to love than to be loveable
I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.
Lemony Snicket - The Austere Academy
You write poetry?" Klaus asked.He had read a lot about poets but had never met one."Just a little bit," Isadora said modestly. "I write poems down in this notebook. It's an interest of mine.""Sappho!" Sunny shrieked, which meant something like, "I'd be very pleased to hear a poem of yours!
Marian Deegan - Relevance: Matter More
Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social skills of British politicianBenjamin Disraeli and his rival William Gladstone illustrates ... The rivalry between the two statesmen piqued the curiosity of American Jennie Jerome, admired beauty and the mother of Winston Churchill. Ms. Jerome arranged to dine with Gladstone and then with Disraeli, on consecutive evenings. Afterward, she described the difference
John Heath-Stubbs -
I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.
Deyth Banger -
I done something bad, it was to believe that to read a book you must be a stupid guy. No people which read they are clever - the guy who said this is stupid guy!
Aleksandra Ninkovic - Write like no one is reading
Today I am amused, and I haven't seen anyone yet.
Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!
Derek Landy - Dark Days
Skul-man!' he exclaimed as he rushed forward to shake his hand. 'Last I heard you were trapped on a dead world overrun by evil trans-dimensional superfiends!' Skulduggery nodded. 'Just got back.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.
Ian Driscoll -
There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
Criss Jami -
Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.
Kishore Bansal -
Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES.
Lance Conrad - The Price of Nobility
I do respect clever.
G.K. Chesterton -
Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one who was too stupid to be a clerk. Probably I should receive no replies; possibly one. Possibly also (nay, probably) it would be from the one man who was not stupid at all. But suppose I had advertised that I had a place for any one who was too clever to be a clerk. My office would be instantly besieged by all the most hopeless fools in the four kingdoms. To advertise for exceptions is simply
Sangu Mandanna - The Lost Girl
He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who the killer is in a detective story. I think he could make a career out of detecting, but he wants to write plays for theater. Maybe he could be a Shakespeare instead of a Sherlock. He could be anything. Anything he wants to be.
M.F. Moonzajer -
Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.
Amit Kalantri -
Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.
Alireza Salehi Nejad - The Third World: Country or People
Pious” is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.
Deyth Banger -
Harold is clever from Person of Interest.
Deyth Banger -
People are hard to be understand, full of lies, full of corupt, if you want a friendship with them is like to have a friendship with nothing. But nothing isn't a possibility of the ability, people you can go 40....50 years studying them and what you will find is that you are old and they are new and more and more stupid. I find somebody who can I trust, it's my computer who else???It's too clever, I need to hang out with clever people not with idiots!
Kim Harrison - Pale Demon
You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rach
Melody Sohayegh - Dreaming is for lovers
I had a dream about you. I licked your cone of ice cream. It was envelope flavored.
Charlie Higson - The Enemy
I’m different,” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
Idries Shah - Reflections
What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.
Julie Anne Long -
The one thing she’d been able to count on her entire life was her cleverness. She was so often right. It was humbling and disorienting to realize that she in truth knew nothing at all. One only ever saw a fraction of someone, whatever it was they chose to show you, and extrapolated a whole person from that. And saw them through a prism of one’s own prejudices.
Micah Elza -
Some say you have only one shot in life, well if you get ammo, you can reload.
Deyth Banger -
I asked somebody else who is out my country about his country and what he answered what's a big suprise what the people said in my country was "STUPIDY" - Category answer!
Deyth Banger -
Wise people make trails and paths, clever walk on them - stupid people can't decide.
Deyth Banger -
...So let's not lie ourselves, let's view the stuff how they are really are...Universe is endless... TIme is endless..., The possibilities of happening or doing something are endless, the numbers are endless...So look how far did we reach, it's incrediable view out here,... but one thing is missing isn't out this have something near, overall after all?
Deyth Banger -
I should avoid that emotion, when I laugh I always think that I'm somehow an a guy who lowers his IQ.
Derek Landy - Last Stand of Dead Men
Portia followed after, a smirk on her face, and Syc hissed as he passed.Donegan waited till they were gone, then swung round to Gracious."He hissed at me.""He hissed at you.""Should I hiss back?""It's a bit late.""He could still hear.""Not unless you run after him.""Do you think I should?""Probably not.""I think I should.""It'd be a bit weird.""You might be right." Donegan pursed his lips, then shook his fist at the doorway."That showed him," said Gracious.Donegan nodded. "He'll think twice abou
Amanda Mosher - Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Better to be able to love than to be loveable.
Holly Black - White Cat
Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
Deyth Banger -
The curiousity and to be interested in something makes you genius.(Robin Sharma said this once, in other words which will mean that to be genius or clever you must be curious to learn!)
George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
Dorothy Dunnett -
My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font water, and grips its jaws with the other lest the goes to litigation about it. Says O'LiamRoe
Derek Landy - Dark Days
My wife was saying to me just the other day how she's noticed a spring in my step lately. That was because I thought you were gone forever.' 'I missed you too, Thurid.
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?
Derek Landy - The Dying of the Light
Over his shoulder, she saw Skulduggery walk in. "Oh, hell," she muttered. Wreath's smile reappeared. "It's Skulduggery, isn't it?"Over his shoulder, she saw Skulduggery walk in. "Oh , hell," she muttered. Wreath's smile reappeared. "It's Skulduggery, isn't it?""Please don't annoy him.""Me? When have I EVER annoyed the great Skulduggery Pleasant?"Skulduggery arrived at their table. Wreath smile up at him. "Hello.""I will shoot you in the eye," Skulduggery said.Wreath glanced at Valkyrie. "I think
Peter Redgrove - The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense
It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.
Marshall Ramsay - Dreaming is for lovers
I had a dream about you last night... in it, we wondered why dogs come in packs but you can't pack dogs.
Amit Kalantri -
You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.
Arnold Bennett -
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Rudyard Kipling -
It's clever, but is it Art?
Jilly Cooper -
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
Ty Burrell -
A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.
Arthur Wellesley -
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Thomas Carlyle -
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Menander -
Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.
Sylvia Plath -
It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
Ken Livingstone -
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
W. C. Fields -
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
Amit Kalantri -
They say “as brave as lion”, they say “as clever as fox”, they say “ as friendly as dog” but nobody says “as something good as man”.
Daphne du Maurier - Don't Look Now and Other Stories
It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.
Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!
Deyth Banger -
I live with past called "DeYtH" ( a guy who is famous with cs 1.6 maps, mods, photoshop and e.t.c. and with my now "Mark Tven", you probably said "Oh,Oh I know this name this guy was a writer..." it's not taken the guy was called Mark Twain, I'm Tven, famous with awesome maps and interesting updates of cs 1.6 maps. To don't forget, I'm famous with my nick of past with writting.
Shannon L. Alder -
Right person, wrong timing doesn’t mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it.
Chris Wooding - Broken Sky: #04
You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact . . .
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.
Deyth Banger -
I'm not a geius guy, even and Albert Einstein isn't and Tesla, nobody is genius. From where you will know what's the IQ for Albert or Tesla in their time there wasn't such test and how such test can show how clever are you in case that the most questions are math, physics and mainly this how this two subjects will show that you are clever or dumb?? I strongly doubt about this if I know the answer sof the test and I fill it right so I must be the world clever man? No, I don't think so - That's bu
Thiruvalluvar - Thirukkural
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tre
nick catricala -
No matter how smart YOU THINK you are or how smart others THINK that you are, you're never going to be somewhere OR someone you're not. _nickc
Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words
Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.
Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words
It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.
Adrian Sandvaer - Bright Moments - A Journey In The Human Mind
The human race is one of the few creatures whom can cry tears. If you look at us we are running around like small insects—all submerged in our own important errands. Everyone blind of whats going on underneath their own noses. We can be compassionate as well as evil. We can love and we can destroy. I will always wonder how the same creature can do both. Oxymoron.” Everything Changes, Always.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.
Criss Jami -
For what religion has never had sects? Rest assured, Extremism is always the derrière.
Deyth Banger -
Some stuff which I do aren't some kind a cheats or this kind a of stuff it's about thinking and it's about how clever am I!
Shannon L. Alder -
Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition)1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It is the number two reason people leave the faith. The first is pride.
Unknown Wattpad writer -
Opinions are like assholes, everybody has their own. I don't mess with yours and you don't mess with mine.
Derek Landy - Death Bringer
I'm going to photograph every single person to enter and leave this tattoo parlour." Finbar rolled his eyes. "And they'll hate that, because people who get dragons drawn on their backs are normally so shy about other people noticing them.
Nights Raven -
Did we really come all that way?" She asked. "Time flies when you're scared out of your mind." He answered.
Tom Althouse - The Frowny Face Cow
If the pen is mightier than the sword, a sharpie must be plain deadly!
Dante Alighieri -
This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.
Lemony Snicket - The Austere Academy
If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends.""We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt such a flutter now. "You certainly are an intelligent man.""Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, "but I'm also very smart.
Catherynne M. Valente - The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.
Mike Brown - How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.
Laura Elizabeth Richards -
Once there was an elephant,Who tried to use the telephant-No! no! I mean an elephoneHe tried to use the telephone-(Dear me! I am not certain quiteThat even now I've got it right.)Howe'er it was, he got his trunkEntangled in the telephunk;The more he tried to get it free, The louder buzzed the telephee-(I fear I'd better drop the songOf elephop and telephong!)
Anita Shreve - Sea Glass
Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.
Deyth Banger -
I found awesome quotes here which are marvel, but the main problem is that from 10000000000000000000000000 people which is an endless result few of them read them. What happens with the other part?? To clever to read this?
Deyth Banger -
Curious make you clever, that most people aren't curious it's their problem.
Brandon Sanderson - Elantris
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.
Natalya Vorobyova - Better to be able to love than to be loveable
I put the bra in brand, and I top it!
W. Ian Thomas -
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.