Clever Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.”
– George P. Baker

“The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them – and for my daughters, too.”
– Louise Brown

“And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it’s attached to this finger and that’s what will keep it there. And I’m looking up at it, so there’s no question but that that beret is going to fly.”
– Mary Tyler Moore

“Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.”
– Arthur Wellesley

“I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.”
– Brian Celio

“Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.”
– Jose Maria Aznar

“Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.”
– Arnold Bennett

“If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.”
– Richard Perle

“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

“A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they’re very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what’s really important and not read them – don’t dive into it and don’t get caught up in it.”
– Calista Flockhart

“For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.”
– Jilly Cooper

“I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.”
– Dick Schaap

“The worst storyline I’ve ever been involved in I wasn’t involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God – that was the worst storyline.”
– Erika Slezak

“Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.”
– Walter Kerr

“The great Chinese classics have always said that it’s better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.”
– John Keegan

“The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn’t be an actor would be laughable in Russia.”
– Samuel West

“So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.”
– Patrick Warburton

“What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don’t do that, it won’t matter how clever your business model is.”
– Paul Graham

“I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.”
– John Peel

“My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.”
– Karl Philipp Moritz

“I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.”
– Mary Augusta Ward

“If a film is very clever and well-written, that’s what gives you freedom as a director.”
– Patrice Leconte

“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.”
– Charles Kingsley

“To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.”
– Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“People may say that what I do is very clever, but it’s not really at all. It’s not Swift.”
– Rory Bremner

“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

“People think you can’t be clever if you have breasts.”
– Kelly Brook

“I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!”
– Anthony Minghella

“That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.”
– Les Baxter

“As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you’d thought of.”
– Iain Banks

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