Quotes of: Cleverness Keyword

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

Rory Bremner

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

Louis C. K.

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

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Samuel Butler

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

Think of something clever, witty or profound, keep it short and people may quote you.

Bobby Darnell

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Billy Wilder

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

Guy Finley

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

J. B. Priestley

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

John Ridley

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Livy

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

William Makepeace Thackeray