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There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
I'm not as clever as J.J. Abrams and those guys who fill it with all of these things for people to find.
A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!
Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.
I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.
I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
With clever and mature people, it becomes clear: you shake hands, and look together towards the same goal.
I'm not the sort of comedian who wants to make audiences think about politics. I'm not clever in that way.
Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.
Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.
We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.
This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.
I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.
City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!
We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.
The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?