802 Quotes About Clever

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings.

You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.