Quotes of: Clever-people Keyword

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

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

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

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

Percy Ross

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

Jurgen Habermas

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

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

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Cesare Pavese

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

David Tennant

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

C.S. Lewis