Quotes with clever

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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Mark Twain The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Angela Carter The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • C. S. Lewis The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ben Gibbard The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Terence What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Irving Layton When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A clever man commits no minor blunders.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a ''joke.''
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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