Quotes by Clever 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 cookingcleverbook Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever. W. S. Gilbert cleverforever At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham happy-new-yearcleverinspirational I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it. Wallace Shawn offeringenoughclever I sit in one of the dives W. H. Auden hopefearclever There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever. W. Somerset Maugham clevermenthinking Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything. Walt Disney understandingcleverbrain Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body Walter de La Mare fashioncleverpeople So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing. Walter Cronkite clevermenthinking Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice. Walter Lippmann sacrificecleverlife The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. Wayne Dyer karmaignoranceclever You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. Wayne Dyer confidencelonelyclever I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard. Wendi Deng Murdoch older-sistercleverthinking Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about Whitfield Diffie realcleverwriting But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them Wilkie Collins cleverbrainmen To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant speakcleverway Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives William C. Dement cleverdreamlife Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react. William Golding curiositycleverchildren Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James procrastinationclevermotivational The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever. William Landay teenagercleverwar«5960616263646566676869»
