Quotes by Clever My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever. Nico great-mendadclever 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 cleverdramafunny I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. Norm MacDonald stupidcleverthinking Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty. Novalis opponentscleverway We tend to get what we expect. Norman Vincent Peale positive-thinkingexpectationsclever Action will destroy your procrastination. Og Mandino procrastinationself-esteemclever Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb. Ogden Nash psychologycleversports The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. Ogden Nash cleverlifesex If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally, then it's dead to me. When I'm reading other fiction writers, if I don't get any emotional investment from the writer, if it's just intellectual or clever - you know, most writing that passes as deep is just clever - I don't feel any connection. Oscar Hijuelos readingcleverwriting I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. Orson Welles carefulprotectclever I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde hipstercleverfunny In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman. Oswald Spengler citiesclevercountry If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you. Oswald Spengler wiseclevermen People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. Otto von Bismarck clevermorningwar Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life. Orson Scott Card fatecleverchildren How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out. Orson Scott Card pathwayshellclever I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde hearingcleverlong How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say. Oscar Wilde hypocrisyclevermean The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night Otto von Bismarck cleversleepnight That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be. P. C. Hodgell truthfaithclever«4243444546474849505152»
