Top 58 I Am So Clever Quotes
#2. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
#3. 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
#5. Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?
Agatha Christie
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Some thought he was quite wicked, but in truth, he was no more or less than any other crow: enamored of bright new things, and too clever to get them by the usual path.
Catherynne M Valente
#9. I had a dream about you. I licked your cone of ice cream. It was envelope flavored.
Melody Sohayegh
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
#14. She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
Kate Chopin
#15. I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.
Hugh Laurie
#16. Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.
Mark Lawrence
#17. Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.
Karen Blixen
#18. She wondered how Dr. Watson - a clever man in his own right - had lasted so many years without bashing his roommate over the head out of sheer frustration.
Emma Jane Holloway
#19. To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or bold simply because they used such language; each time they opened their mouths they proclaimed I am a person who is poor in words.
Alexander McCall Smith
#20. I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.
Janwillem Van De Wetering
#21. When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five, I was just alive.
But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.
A.A. Milne
#22. You enjoy being clever, don't you?" "It happens so rarely that I relish the moments when I am.
Joshua Roots
#23. For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull?
Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining."
Your immensely entertaining sister,
Miri
Shannon Hale
#24. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
#25. There is some kind a stuck in the fuck, okay... let's cheat...proccessing......proccessing......proccessing...., okay I just made a clever move. Up to here okay, let's continue... wow it just worked. I just made a successful prank or let's called it a cheat. So I am a cheater?
Deyth Banger
#26. Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen.
Patrick Rothfuss
#27. I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.
Soren Kierkegaard
#28. Some stuff which I do aren't some kind a cheats or this kind a of stuff it's about thinking and it's about how clever am I!
Deyth Banger
#29. You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
Mary MacLane
#30. As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man," said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where I stood last time. Anyhow, me and Arthur is like two fingers of a gauntlet. Or at least the thumb and the little finger. I mean, I'm his top General, and all. So if I say you're in, you're in.
Garth Nix
#31. There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
Peter Capaldi
#32. 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
#33. Immensely clever story, and quite creepy, in a delightfully scary way.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#34. Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.
Emily Fridlund
#35. 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
#36. The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.
George Hammond
#37. But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.
Julian Barnes
#38. I'm out to change people's attitudes about them. Wolves are a whole lot more than just predators who feast on a rancher's herd. They're smart and clever and loyal and courageours, and sometimes they do really stupid, silly things, just like people.
R.C. Ryan
#39. 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
#40. Why,' said he, 'does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?
Alexandre Dumas
#41. There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#42. There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
Iris Apfel
#43. If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.
Simone Weil
#44. With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.
Roman Payne
#45. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
#46. Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#47. We are never more clever than in the creation of ways to destroy ourselves.
Marcus Sakey
#48. When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.
David Horsey
#49. Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking
Vasily Klyuchevsky
#50. 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
#51. To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#52. Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
Michael Leunig
#53. Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I've got grace management issues.
A&E Kirk
#54. 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
#55. We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.
Steven Pinker
#56. In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.
Bob Odenkirk
#57. Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho. But you never read novels, I dare say?" "Why not?" "Because they are not clever enough for you - gentlemen read better books.
Jane Austen
#58. Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.
Laura Anne Gilman
