Top 46 On Being Clever Quotes
#1. Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
Confucius
#2. 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
#3. I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
Ken Livingstone
#4. The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.
Brandon Sanderson
#6. People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.
Marcel Proust
#8. I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
Courtney Milan
#9. Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.
Mark Haddon
#10. I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.
Andrea Bocelli
#11. The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever.
Barack Obama
#13. You enjoy being clever, don't you?" "It happens so rarely that I relish the moments when I am.
Joshua Roots
#14. A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.
Sally Potter
#15. I've never met a murderer who wasn't vain ... It's their vanity that leads to their undoing, nine times out of ten.They may be frightened of being caught, but they can't help strutting and boasting and usually they're sure they've been far too clever to be caught.
Agatha Christie
#16. I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.
Douglas Coupland
#17. The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion.
Bob Dole
#18. Thinking of something to say is difficult when you want to be perceived as clever!
Lorraine Reguly
#19. When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.
Barbara Ess
#20. 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
#21. A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
Robert A. Heinlein
#22. Jokes are another example of stupidity... we are so wise and so clever and we do stupid stuff, how wise is that?
Jokes on stage of being serious... when you aren't serious what you get is more likely somebody being in state of seriousness.
Deyth Banger
#23. Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself. It is not always their faults.
E. Nesbit
#24. The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
Antony Beevor
#25. I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she'd make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn't piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had
Nora Roberts
#26. Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.
C.S. Lewis
#27. Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
Eddie Marsan
#28. Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all.
John Connolly
#29. The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait,
A revenge not only necessary but right and clever
Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.
Donald Justice
#30. To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
Malcolm McLaren
#31. At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
Mark Twain
#32. Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
Thucydides
#33. Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
John W. Gardner
#34. Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.
John Carlin
#35. There is a world of difference between being clever and being right.
Ian Driscoll
#36. Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.
David Perlmutter
#37. Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction.
Paul Di Filippo
#38. Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the discworld: the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trolley folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy.
Terry Pratchett
#39. He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.
Louise Penny
#40. The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote some one who is.
Mary Pettibone Poole
#41. It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.
Christopher Strachey
#42. Medium clever," Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking."
"I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chattering about," said Jace. "It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.
Cassandra Clare
#43. And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.
Ian McEwan
#44. I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living.
Mark Helprin
#45. I said that I wasn't clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn't clever. That was just being observant.
Mark Haddon
