Cleverest Or Most Clever Quotes

#1. The backfire, my dear boy, of exiling the cleverest criminals of the nation to one place and requiring them to use their ingenuity is that they will
and you can't control what they do with it.

Sam Starbuck

#2. Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#3. Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Reginald Horace Blyth

#5. Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

#6. I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

Lily Donaldson

#7. And wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

Edith Wharton

#8. When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

Hilary Mantel

#9. Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Lena Horne

#10. How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

Gore Vidal

#11. I picked out Nathan and James standing next to each other and wiggled in between them.
"Dude we got lucky, threesome." James whispered over my head to Nathan.
"Puh-leez ... " I muttered and rolled my eyes.
Nathan shushed us both.

Bella Shadow

#12. Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

Giorgio Moroder

#13. 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

#14. My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

Jerry Ferrara

#15. Our species may yet end its strange eventful history as just the last, the cleverest of the great apes. The great ape that was clever - but not clever enough. It could escape from most things but not from its own mental confusion.

H.G.Wells

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#17. My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

M.I.A.

#18. You knew when a woman loves you like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.

Van Heflin

#19. There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

Dru Pagliassotti