Quotes of: Cleverness Keyword

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

Louise Brown

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when its literary tropes are all too familiar, its ...

Tim Parks

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.

Consider Phlebas

A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!

Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

I don't want my words to be clever or eloquent. I just want them to speak God's heart.

Eve of Awakening

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

East of Eden

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

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

The Wise Man's Fear

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

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Naguib Mahfouz