Top 77 Cleverer Quotes
#1. The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us
Jude Morgan
#2. Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.
Jonathan Stroud
#3. One Macaca fuscata is cleverer than two Homines sapientes
David Mitchell
#5. Back then I knew exactly what I wanted. Now that I've gotten it ... I don't know, it seems the cleverer you are, the more goals there are just outside one's reach.
Richard Finney
#6. MARGARETE. Yes, out of sight is out of mind. It's second nature with you, gallantry; But you have friends of every kind, Cleverer by far, oh much, than me. FAUST. Dear girl, believe me, what's called cleverness Is mostly shallowness and vanity.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.
Jean Genet
#9. This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.
Theodor Adorno
#11. Bill blinked tears from his eyes, then fastened his gaze on me. "Bitch," he snarled - why they never think of anything cleverer I'll never know.
Elizabeth Bear
#12. Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either.
Walter Scott
#13. I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
Antonia Fraser
#14. Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
Daniel Barber
#15. Real life is - quieter, more understated. No one is backlot and nothing has a soundtrack and no one has someone cleverer than them writing their lines. And so they just say nothing and get on with it. More's the pity, if you ask me, I quite like the idea of my own soundtrack.
Matthew Crow
#16. We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that delivers more widespread green behaviour is going to need to be cleverer that that.
Chris Powell
#17. I have always been much cleverer in retrospect.
Jaida Jones
#19. Abakumov was cleverer than Yakonov supposed. It was just that prolonged lack of exercise had rendered the minister's brain useless to him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#21. I have considered myself cleverer than any of the people surrounding me, and sometimes, would you belive it, have been positively ashamed of it. At any rate, I have all my life, as it were, turned my eyes away and never could look people straight in the face.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
Oscar Wilde
#23. Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh ... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one.
Anton Chekhov
#24. Was the man cleverer than he looked or just crazier? The line separating the two seemed rather thin
Tarun Shanker
#25. I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.
Sarah Pinborough
#26. America didn't bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
A.A. Gill
#27. God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.
John Polkinghorne
#28. Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself
Andrew Carnegie
#29. But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.
Wilkie Collins
#30. In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.
Andrew Motion
#31. I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being
forgive me
rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
J.K. Rowling
#32. Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#33. Jude: Just as you are? Not thinner? Not cleverer? Not with slightly bigger breasts or slightly smaller nose?
Bridget: No.
Shazzer: Well, fuck me.
Tom: This is someone you hate right?
Bridget: Yes, yes, I hate him.
Helen Fielding
#34. There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.
Douglas Portway
#35. Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be.
L.M. Montgomery
#36. I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
George Bernard Shaw
#37. All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.)
Curtis Sittenfeld
#38. You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.
Amy Winehouse
#39. This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.
Nick Cave
#40. And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
Jane Austen
#41. It's with such nothings that clever people are thrown off most easily. The cleverer the man, the less he suspects that he can be thrown off with the simplest thing. It's precisely the simplest thing that will throw off the cleverest man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#42. Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.
Christine De Pizan
#43. The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.
Andrew Stanton
#44. To us - richer and cleverer than everyone else!
Scott Lynch
#45. MEETING THE EYE
You'll probably find
that it suits your book
to be a bit cleverer
than you look.
Observe that the easiest
method by far
is to look a bit stupider
than you are.
Piet Hein
#47. It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters.
P.D. James
#48. The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
Gaston Bachelard
#49. If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
Leo Szilard
#50. I thought about the warm skin and soft hair and hands of someone living, someone who was far cleverer and funnier than I would ever be and who still couldn't see a better future than to obliterate himself.
Jojo Moyes
#51. London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.
Steve Coogan
#52. Why can't I drink the potion instead?" asked Harry desperately.
"Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable," said Dumbledore.
J.K. Rowling
#53. When you read this you may already have met Hermes. In case you haven't, I'll add that he is a dog. But don't worry. he is very good-tempered - and moreover, a good deal more intelligent than a lot of people. In any event he never tries to give the impression of being cleverer than he is.
Jostein Gaarder
#54. If you are much cleverer than your enemy, you can even help your enemy to stay alive and not to harm himself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions.
Maxim Gorky
#56. I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
Anthony Minghella
#57. Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#58. A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde
#59. I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls.
Particularly the live ones.
Grant Morrison
#60. By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
Robert Genn
#61. It isn't fair she should have everything and I nothing. She isn't better or cleverer or much prettier than me ... only luckier.
L.M. Montgomery
#62. You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.
J.K. Rowling
#63. I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have to play a different game than men play, and you have to be a lot cleverer.
Samuel Barnett
#64. Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
Penelope Keith
#65. They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.
C.S. Lewis
#66. And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored.
Thomas Hardy
#67. Large people tend to have large heads. Men are no cleverer than we are, Miss Sunderly. Just taller.
Frances Hardinge
#68. Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.
Cassandra Clare
#69. One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
Lech Walesa
#70. That's true," she cried - "very true. Little Emma, grow up a better woman than your aunt. Be infinitely cleverer and not half so conceited.
Jane Austen
#71. In order to succeed, it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to be is one day ahead of them.
Leo Szilard
#74. I think Hollywood is cleverer than you think. I'm not sure they will do it. I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong. When we were doing the preparation of the movie, we didn't have all the money so we were looking for all the solutions possible, and 3D was one option.
Michel Hazanavicius
#75. I've been an idiot."
"That's okay," I said. "You're still way cleverer than me".
J.L. Merrow
#76. I daresay that's a better-looking man there. A cleverer man.' He ran one hand through his short dark hair, frowning at his reflection. 'Not sure if I trust that bastard, though.
Joe Abercrombie
#77. I cared about dogs because they were faithful and honest, and some dogs were cleverer and more interesting than some people.
Mark Haddon
