Quotes with clever

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  • Bill Cosby George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Albert Einstein God is clever, but not dishonest.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • J. G. Ballard God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Good and stupid, is a common saying. I have found that only the judicious are really good. Only clever men know what is good for others; and at the first appearance of disadvantage to himself, the stupid man deserts.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Lao-Tzu He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Oscar Wilde How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Peel I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Winston Churchill If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do rejects all restrictions imposed by form and formality and emphasizes the clever use of the mind and body to defend and attack.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 2
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Arnold Bennett Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Cesare Pavese No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Samuel Butler People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • W. H. Auden Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Aristophanes Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Bryan Adams Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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