Quotes of: Clever-man Keyword

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Elantris

I’m different,” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

The Enemy

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.

Gone Girl

Getting a Lady is easy, but keeping a Lady is clever.

A Gentleman with a C.SL:A young gentlemen's guide to dating & relationships

He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one.

Alison Wonderland

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

An Accomplished Woman

The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Anne of Green Gables

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

Jane Austen And Her Art

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

The Recognitions

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Unknown

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

Tom Felton

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.

Kishore Bansal

Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference.

Kerry E. Wagner

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Leon Kass

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Leo Szilard

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

Lauren Willig

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

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

Michael Bassey Johnson