Clever Quotes

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd c...

What I stand for is what I stand on.

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer bra...

Civilization begins with distillation

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no...

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always pl...

You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?""I suppose.""AR-15?""Ugh. AR-15? I'd rather not h...

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...

What the hell makes you smart?" I asked."I wouldn't go for coffee with you.""Listen - I wouldn't ask...

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

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beau...

As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man," said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where ...

No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever ...

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot ...

It's the people who try to be clever who never are the people who are clever never think of trying t...

I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Trave...

Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosopher to task, upbraid...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the o...

Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remai...

How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

The failure mode of clever is “asshole.

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academicall...

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half a...

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and i...

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefi...

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, ...

It's clever, but is it Art?

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is slugg...

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy...

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others r...

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby wha...