Top 100 Very Clever Sayings
#1. The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.
George Hammond
#2. But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.
Julian Barnes
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) ... I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.
Noel Coward
#6. Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?
Agatha Christie
#7. 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
#8. You're very patronizing," I pointed out. "Very clever of you to notice, girlie. Have a look at this.
Jasper Fforde
#9. I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
David Attenborough
#10. That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed up in a cheap fur coat.
J.D. Salinger
#11. He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#12. But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
Jane Austen
#13. 88 One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever ... But you're a good man. And very clever ... . You will get through ... .
Ford Madox Ford
#15. Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman. Grot-Grot had a bald patch on the top of her head, she was missing an eye and she smelled like a dead skunk. She did have a good sense of humour though.
Aussiescribbler
#16. 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
#17. I'm very clever,' said the Doctor. It was a good line, and he was determined to use it as much as possible.
Neil Gaiman
#18. They could get it," Doc said. "They could ruin their lives and get money. Mack has qualities of genius. They're all very clever if they want something. They just know the nature of things too well to be caught in wanting.
John Steinbeck
#19. Then there is the curse of multi-tasking. Doing two things at once seems so clever, so efficient, so modern. And yet what it often means is doing two things not very well. Like many people, I read the paper while watching TV - and find that I get less out of both.
Carl Honore
#20. Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
Jose Maria Aznar
#21. And when Finn complained at the end of a day that they had not come very far, she said, "What does it matter? We've got all the time in the world."
Which is not always a clever thing to say.
Eva Ibbotson
#22. You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, anything. Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever.
Carrie Vaughn
#23. There once was a little mouse. He was a very clever little mouse. He lived in the walls of a house with
Paul Ramage
#24. I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.
Jason Lee
#25. Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want to add suffix (-ass), it's very suitable, isn't it?
Deyth Banger
#26. Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
Geoff Mulgan
#27. The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling
#28. DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
Ada Yonath
#29. The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
Kurt Vonnegut
#30. [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
George Bernard Shaw
#31. He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.
Louise Penny
#32. I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.
Janna Levin
#33. His heart filled his chest and ran to the end of his tail and the very tips of his considerable ears. It filled his head, squeezing out his brain. But Henri, the foundling, was a humanist, and while not particularly clever was the smartest creature Gamache knew. Everything he knew he knew by heart.
Louise Penny
#34. I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.
David Tennant
#35. The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
Criss Jami
#36. The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#37. Yeah, sure. You know I can't stand the sight of blood, right?"
"Said no one ever while dating a vampire," he quipped
"Very clever. Ten points to Gryffindor.
Kristi Cook
#38. Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.
Erik Naggum
#40. Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.
Roger Kahn
#41. There was a period when STP and I weren't making music - we weren't getting along very good at all. But I had my studio, so I was writing and recording a lot of music. But something told me not to put it out. It was all stream of consciousness; it was clever, but it didn't really have substance.
Scott Weiland
#42. And she's very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her
Suzanne Collins
#43. I am very clever. I am sure and could figure it out and shazam! Tomasz saves the world again.
Patrick Ness
#44. It was a very beautiful thing, this Golden Ticket, having been made, so it seemed, from a sheet of pure gold hammered out almost to the thinness of paper. On one side of it, printed by some clever method in jet-black letters, was the invitation itself - from Mr. Wonka.
Roald Dahl
#45. What would be the point of cyphering messages that very clever enemies couldn't break? You'd end up not knowing what they thought you thought they were thinking ...
Terry Pratchett
#46. I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.
Roald Dahl
#47. I see that,' I said. I thought I did. 'But every case is different. And anyway, you can't learn from other people's mistakes.'
'Not unless you're very clever,' said Dexter sadly.
Tania Kindersley
#48. I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever.
Sue Townsend
#49. I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting.
Nigel Lawson
#50. His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.
C.S. Lewis
#51. You and Teacher," said Molly.
"Yes," said Peter. "She's very clever. You'll like her."
"I'm sure," said Molly.
Dave Barry
#52. Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
Yoko Ono
#53. Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.
Karin Slaughter
#54. Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#56. She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar Wilde
#57. Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he was very stupid, would be as unjust as to say that he had brought his troops to Moscow because he wished to and because he was very clever and a genius
Leo Tolstoy
#59. It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.
Robert Smith
#60. I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#61. The possession of a strong will and a clever head makes some things very difficult to see
Alan W. Watts
#62. My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
Ian Hislop
#63. The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.
David Allen
#64. I'm very clever
at
hiding poems
perhaps more
clever than I
am
at
writing
them.
Charles Bukowski
#65. A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
Honore De Balzac
#66. Oberon:She's a very clever girl, the kind you dont' take home to Ogma.
Kevin Hearne
#67. If I am very lucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.
Elizabeth Wein
#68. My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
Nico Rosberg
#69. The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.
Rand Paul
#70. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Jane Austen
#71. Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with
Benjamin Hoff
#72. Doing two things at once seems so clever, so efficient, so modern. And yet what it often means is doing two things not very well.
Carl Honore
#73. If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Patrice Leconte
#74. When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
Rory Bremner
#76. I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
Albert Einstein
#77. I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.
Mo Rocca
#78. It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out
Gene Simmons
#79. 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
#80. I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.
Thomas Haden Church
#81. I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#82. I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.
John Lydon
#83. In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep.
John Gurdon
#84. Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped ... Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.
E. Nesbit
#85. 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
#86. But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!
Suzanne Collins
#87. Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.
Paul Hoffman
#88. Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.
J.K. Rowling
#89. What a villain you are, to boast of killing women and children of your own nation! What will God say when you appear before him?" "He will say," replied he, "that I was a very clever fellow.
David Livingstone
#90. It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
Jake Barton
#91. 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
#92. I bet you thought you were very clever, sneaking off like that." "Medium clever, "Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythbBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.
Cassandra Clare
#93. Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Margot Asquith
#94. I must try and be good, or clever, or eccentric, for it was very evident that pretty I could never be
Rhoda Broughton
#95. Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
Allison Anders
#96. Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
Leo Tolstoy
#97. Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.
Franz Beckenbauer
#99. Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared.
Richard Digance
#100. These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.
Terry Pratchett
