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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

I always feel for the younger cast members in 'Game of Thrones.' They're really clever and smart.

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

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

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

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

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.

I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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