802 Quotes About Clever

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.