Clever men are good, but they are not the best. Thomas Carlyle Scottish Philosopher More Thomas Carlyle Quotes 4
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling English More Rudyard Kipling Quotes 4
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. William Makepeace Thackeray English Novelist More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes 3
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. Benjamin Disraeli British Statesman More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes 3
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer German Theologian More Albert Schweitzer Quotes 3
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 American Actress More Calista Flockhart Quotes 1
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. W. C. Fields American Comedian More W. C. Fields Quotes 0
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming! Ricky Gervais English Writer More Ricky Gervais Quotes 0
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. Euripides Greek Poet More Euripides Quotes 0
A clever man commits no minor blunders. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes 0
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. Kenneth Grahame Scottish Novelist More Kenneth Grahame Quotes 0
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. Graham Greene British Playwright More Graham Greene Quotes 0
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Hungarian Scientist More Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes 0
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel Polish Educator More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes 0
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. Adolf Hitler Criminal More Adolf Hitler Quotes 0
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. Irving Layton Canadian Poet More Irving Layton Quotes 0
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Patrice Leconte French Director More Patrice Leconte Quotes 0
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. Charles Kingsley English Clergyman More Charles Kingsley Quotes 0
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling English Writer More Rudyard Kipling Quotes 0
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 0
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. Titus Livius Roman Historian More Titus Livius Quotes 0
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist More Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes 0
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. Fannie Hurst American Writer More Fannie Hurst Quotes 0