Top 100 Be Clever Quotes
#1. You count snouts," Straha said. "Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.
Harry Turtledove
#2. Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.
Saki
#5. I'd even had business cards made up reading, ABIGAIL COOPER, P.I. with teeny-weeny little letters underneath in parentheses spelling out PSYCHIC INTUITIVE. Most people think I'm trying to be clever. The truth is, I'm a chickenshit.
Victoria Laurie
#6. I know it sounds calculating, but if you're not cute, you might as well be clever.
David Sedaris
#7. I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
Garrison Keillor
#8. Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it
- the Dutchess
Lewis Carroll
#9. Music is made for relax, let's don't move it... let's be clever and left it like this, shall we?
Deyth Banger
#10. I think of her again. Anna. Anna Dressed in Blood. I wonder what tricks she'll try. I wonder if she'll be clever. Will she float? Will she laugh or scream?
How will she try to kill me?
Kendare Blake
#11. I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it ... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.
Joss Whedon
#12. To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
Jeff Bezos
#14. Be clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
Catherynne M Valente
#17. In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.
George Mikes
#18. A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.
Anthony Trollope
#20. The key for me is movement. When the ball comes into the box, or when the wide players get it, that's where I have to be clever and make my runs. That's where I come alive.
Jermain Defoe
#21. there were three bad mistakes you could make, but if you made only two of the three you could be forgiven. The mistakes were: to be foreign; to be clever; and to be bad at games.
Salman Rushdie
#22. People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
Kelly Brook
#23. It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick
Lisa Kleypas
#24. If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
Dana Brunetti
#25. If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
Henry Ward Beecher
#26. To lead a child (or anyone else!), even inadvertently, away from faithfulness, away from loyalty and bedrock belief simply because we want to be clever or independent is license no parent nor any other person has ever been given.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#28. It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
#29. You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries."
"She's not clever. I did them," yelled Frieda.
"You'll get five years."
"She did them."
From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl
Robyn Quaker
#30. What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence
#31. Your style is who you are when you're not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.
John Currin
#32. What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.
Idries Shah
#33. You still said things like that then, still bothered trying to be clever.
Nic Kelman
#34. To can't be found as a killer or even caugh... you should be clever - books can teach that.
Deyth Banger
#35. My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.
Jeff Bezos
#36. It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.
Peter Redgrove
#37. You have to be clever in how you make money and save it, and clever in how you enjoy your life.
Ehab Atalla
#38. When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
Olivier Megaton
#39. She will not be clever, but still, I see no reason why she should not one day lead a satisfying life separately from her sister. Perhaps she might even marry. All men do not seek intelligence in a wife, and Emmeline is very affectionate.
Diane Setterfield
#40. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you know how easy it is.
Terry Pratchett
#41. There are ways to get what you need out of your warrior. You just must be clever in finding them
Kristen Ashley
#42. Anyone who doesn't respect a teacher or cherish a student may be clever, but has gone astray.
Lao-Tzu
#43. I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.
Joss Whedon
#44. Time never waits for your answers like do you want to continue or not. It continues so be clever, one moment you will wake up in 16, then 26, then 45, then 67 and your whole life it will went like two hours film!
Deyth Banger
#45. I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.
Mariella Frostrup
#46. What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.
Brett Dennen
#47. I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.
Gregory David Roberts
#48. I don't want my words to be clever or eloquent. I just want them to speak God's heart.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#49. It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
Jake Barton
#51. If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.
Harvey Dunn
#53. Don't feel too bad" I offered. "I met him face-to-face, and I missed it, too."
"Yes, but no one expected you to be clever Miss Rook."
"Thanks for that," I said
William Ritter
#54. I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.
Daniel Kahneman
#55. Be aware. Be Curious. Be Clever. Innovation is Something to be Reckoned with.
Daniel C. Tomas
#56. The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
C.S. Lewis
#57. It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
Gilbert Parker
#58. You somehow didn't expect cleverness from a girl this beautiful; beautiful girls did not, as a rule, have to be clever. So far as Bert could tell, all beautiful girls had to do was wake up in the morning.
Stephen King
#59. Better to be strong,' he [Lolo] said ... 'if you can't be strong, be clever and make peace with someone who's strong. But always better to be strong yourself.
Barack Obama
#60. Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making ... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.
Tim Hunt
#61. I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
Anne Enright
#62. And he has to be handsome, unbelievably handsome, impossibly handsome with a strong, square jaw and powerful cheekbones and tanned skin and beautiful eyes with lush, thick lashes. He has to be clever and very wealthy but hard-working. He has to be virile, fierce, ruthless and rugged.
Kristen Ashley
#64. Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.
David Joyner
#65. In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.
John Mayer
#66. The fact that someone is not particularly intelligent is no guide in these things. People may be stupid and extremely complicated just as they can be clever and incapable of deep feeling.
Julian Fellowes
#67. If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.
David Sedaris
#68. Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.
Jose Mourinho
#69. I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
Orson Scott Card
#71. I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.
Melissa D'Arabian
#72. To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#73. I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
Malachy McCourt
#74. To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton
#75. The dull always seek to be clever at the fool's expense, to somehow repay him for his cutting wit, but never are they clever, and often they are cruel.
Christopher Moore
#76. The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!"
Alek tried not to laugh. "Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?"
"Don't try to be clever, young man." She narrowed her eyes. "It's elephants all the way down!
Scott Westerfeld
#78. Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
Laozi
#79. You're too clever to be a soldier." Then she shook her head. "Don't say it. I know. We need our soldiers to be clever. I do know."
"Thank you," he murmured. "You can do all of the conversation. Make it easier for me.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#80. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.
Charles Kingsley
#81. Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.
Toni Morrison
#82. The moment when you realise that you are stupid, you catch your best chance to be clever!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
Karin Slaughter
#84. One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know how much you needed to know.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#85. The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.
Kenneth McLeish
#86. It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.
F. J. Foakes-Jackson
#87. A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#88. Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
W. H. Auden
#89. And there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?
Cary Grant
#90. The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.
George Hammond
#91. To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.
Hugh Laurie
#92. Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking
Vasily Klyuchevsky
#93. The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#94. Well, Henry, if I were you I wouldn't worry", said the lawyer. "My belief is that your boy's born lucky, and in the long run that's better than to be born clever or rich.
W. Somerset Maugham
#95. Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.
Laura Anne Gilman
#96. Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?
Veronica Roth
#97. More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people.
Sheila Cassidy
#98. Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
Lech Walesa
#99. I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.
Craig Ferguson
#100. The girl has proven herself to be more clever than I would have given her credit for. Kai dragged his hand through his hair, extinguishing an unexpected spark of pride.
Marissa Meyer
