Quotes of: Clever-people Keyword

There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.

Ian Driscoll

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

David Walton

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

Ellie Goulding

Merlin: Remember, there's always something cleverer than yourself.

Excalibur

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When it comes to cleverness, I'm afraid that I was limited to alternate tuesdays...

William Frederick

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

Wilson Mizner

So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what w...

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.

How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

After you're gone, people will forget your name, no matter how important it was, and your face, no matter how pretty it was, and what you said, no matter how clever any of it sounded. The things you've done will crumble and fade and the places you on...

I Wrote This For You

He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of actual enjoyment. Most people don't know what they like because they feel obligated to like so many different th...

The Sixteen Pleasures

She’s an absolute idiot!” she added with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyo...

Marcel Proust

Oh,clever... what's the use of that? Are they human beings?

The Collector

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

George Steiner

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

Tales of the Dying Earth

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

Peter Pan

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

Kate Moss

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Margot Asquith

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

Mehmet Murat ildan

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

The Witch's Daughter