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Tag Name "Clever" (594)

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever
Criss Jami
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Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.
David Baddiel
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Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.
Charlie Munger
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
Holly Black
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Frank Moore Colby
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Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.
J. K. Rowling
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Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire
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Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.
M.C. Beaton
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Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
Toni Morrison
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Clever man is a chicken it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Clever is as clever does.
Tony DiTerlizzi
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
R. H. Tawney
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Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.
Laura Anne Gilman
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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw
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Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
Holly Black
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Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool and of many a good man, a knave.
Frances Wright
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I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
John le Carre
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I've always enjoyed things that are popular,I mean, obviously, there are plenty of things that are popular that I hate. But when something like that is done right, I just think they nail it. I just think Modern Family is a really clever show.
Doug Benson
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
Jane Austen
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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
John Lubbock
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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
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