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But Louis XIV had clever ministers, mainly men of humble origin chosen for their outstanding ability.
— E.H. Gombrich
He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one.
— Helen Smith
God is clever, but not dishonest.
— Albert Einstein
Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!
— Geraldine McCaughrean
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.
— J.M. Barrie
No one is bound to be clever, but every one is under an obligation to be good.
— Jean-Louis Guez De Balzac
Quite a lot is a large amount but quite a few is also a large amount.
— Teresa Monachino
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
She was dark, thin, healthy, good-looking, clever, ambitious, rich, unsatisfied, perhaps unscrupulous - but not without a conscience.
— Anthony Trollope
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
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.
— Steven Crocker
Maybe, but she knows too much and she's clever too. She's just a girl now, but one day she'll be a woman and a clever woman's dangerous.
— Joseph Delaney
I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
— John Crowley
I'm not trying to put you down, but even if I did, you'd have nowhere to go.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.
— Wilkie Collins
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
But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
— Catherynne M Valente
The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.
— Paula Poundstone
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.
— Jacob Burckhardt
It's been a long time since I've seen you, Palmer. But you're just the same, only more so.
— L.M. Montgomery
Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
— Bear Grylls
Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.
— John Steinbeck
In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
— Thomas Carlyle
But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.
— Julian Barnes
Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted. They make no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
— Patrick Demarchelier
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I've got grace management issues.
— A&E Kirk
Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
— Mark Twain
When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm a strange kind of author - I like assignments. I wasn't clever enough to invent an iconic figure like Salander, but she's my kind of girl.
— David Lagercrantz
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?
— Toru Takemitsu
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
— Jane Austen
But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
— Mark Rylance
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it
— Robert Montgomery
Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.
— Winston Churchill
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
— Arthur Wellesley
A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
— Thomas Carlyle
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
— J.B. Priestley
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
I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.
— Emilia Fox
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 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
But you didn't die.""Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years. — Scott Lynch
Getting a Lady is easy, but keeping a Lady is clever.
— Pontius Joseph
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
— Rory Bremner
Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.
— Gary L. Graybill
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
— Sun Tzu
This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
— Rudyard Kipling
Words from the past: It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.
— Robert Breault
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
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Admitting your mistakes makes you humble. But not repeating your mistakes makes you clever.
— Sarvesh Jain
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
And wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
— Edith Wharton
But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.
— A.A. Milne
I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way
— Victoria Beckham
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It's clever, but is it art?
— Rudyard Kipling
Aesop fable. "You can play the clever fox all you want - but you'll never get the grapes that way.
— Rolf Dobelli
Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all.
— John Connolly
I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.
— Tove Jansson
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
He left behind several failed careers, two failed marriages, and a reputation as a clever but fairly annoying fellow.
— Steve Sheinkin
You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.
— Amit Kalantri
