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Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You might get clever and say, "My doubting God's existence was willed by God." Only half true. You also chose to doubt.
— Rumi
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
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.
— Giorgio De Chirico
I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas.
— Terry Pratchett
That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
— Catherynne M Valente
Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
— Jane Goodall
That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed up in a cheap fur coat.
— J.D. Salinger
It's easy to poke fun at the world and think yourself clever, but it's much harder to stand silent and endure.
— Jessica Cluess
A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.
— Leo Tolstoy
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade — W. H. Auden
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade — W. H. Auden
You're either good, or you're clever.
— Mackenzi Lee
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
— Jose Maria Aznar
Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.
— David Eddings
A clever slave deserves a clever master, and you lot all look like fools.
— George R R Martin
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
When a man is clever enough and knows his quarry well enough to choose such a time and place to propose marriage, well, a woman was a goner.
— J.D. Robb
But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
— Catherynne M Valente
A good looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man.
— Jane Austen
A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together
— John Grisham
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
I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care to have breakfast with.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.
— Donald A. Norman
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
— Iain Banks
Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
— Bear Grylls
Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.
— Gautama Buddha
Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.
— Natalya Vorobyova
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
And wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
— Edith Wharton
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
— Michael McKean
I put the bra in brand, and I top it!
— Natalya Vorobyova
Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.
— Jill Badonsky
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.
— Ken Livingstone
A shy smile, strong arms, clever fingers, and two sure swords. What more could any woman want?
— George R R Martin
Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.
— Judith Viorst
Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
— Robert Breault
A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Why can't I drink the potion instead?" asked Harry desperately.
"Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable," said Dumbledore. — J.K. Rowling
"Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable," said Dumbledore. — J.K. Rowling
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 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. — John Heath-Stubbs
though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact. — John Heath-Stubbs
You have to be clever in how you make money and save it, and clever in how you enjoy your life.
— Ehab Atalla
The underlying principle of all Satan's tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.
— Billy Graham
But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
— Mark Rylance
His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.
— C.S. Lewis
Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.
— David Baddiel
The law, as manipulated by clever and highly respected rascals, still remains the best avenue for a career of honourable and leisurely plunder.
— Gabriel Chevallier
I have a clever and devious plan.
— Steven Brust
I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.
— Amanda Mosher
This Guph was really a clever rascal, and it seems a pity he was so bad, for in a good cause he might have accomplished much.
— L. Frank Baum
You don't need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.
— Shannon Hale
This was a clever man, as clever as Alfred, and he knew that weakness invited war.
— Bernard Cornwell
Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.
— Nicole Lyons
If the past has taught me one thing, it is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
— Heather Stotz
Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.
— Ann Coulter
The greatest fools in the universe are men who think they are smarter than women.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.
— James Denney
War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
— Alberto Moravia
I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's important that I'm properly dressed.
— Tommy Donbavand
That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
— Les Baxter
He left behind several failed careers, two failed marriages, and a reputation as a clever but fairly annoying fellow.
— Steve Sheinkin
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
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
For the clever and lucky, all roads are open!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Authors are known to have fiendishly clever minds, and the authors of children's books are more fiendishly clever than most. What
— Alan Bradley
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
where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.
— Anita Shreve
No government likes the clever and the honourable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We're both clever and stupid in equal measure.
— Brian Cox
I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.
— Thomas Haden Church
In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.
— Jane Grigson
I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living.
— Mark Helprin
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an
anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. — Banksy
anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. — Banksy
The possession of a strong will and a clever head makes some things very difficult to see
— Alan W. Watts
P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.
— Mark Lawrence
Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.
— Gena Showalter
Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
— Otto Von Bismarck
Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking
— Vasily Klyuchevsky
The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.
— Shusaku Endo
The kitchen. The bathroom. The yin and yang of the household.
— David C. Holley
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
My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever ... But you're a good man. And very clever ... . You will get through ... .
— Ford Madox Ford
Funny, clever and exciting!!!
— Rick Riordan
She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him.
— Nick Hornby
Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich