Quotes of: Clever-man Keyword

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

Brian Reynolds Myers

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.

Patrick Demarchelier

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

Al Yankovic

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

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Jose Maria Aznar

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

John Peel

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

Jack Dee

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Carolyn Wells

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.

Hugh Laurie

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

Alison Krauss

Sometimes you've to be clever than a coyote to out wit the devil.

Life

Ah, clever clogs, but it have happened in one of my alternative lives. You know--the lives hot-shot scientists tell us we are living at the same time as this one we know about. Which being so, how do you know that what happens in one of your alternat...

Postcards from No Man's Land

What can you do when everyone around you is strong and clever?

The Birds

Men like fun much more than they like clever

Here's Looking at You

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ( , 1928)

Works of Elbert Hubbard

Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.

Three Junes

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

Penelope Keith

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Percy Ross

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Rory Bremner