Clever Sayings & Quotes
These clever sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. - Bertrand Russell
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. - Rudyard Kipling
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. - Mark Twain
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - George Bernard Shaw
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. - Bertrand Russell
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. - Benjamin Disraeli
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows. - Henry Ward Beecher
Here's a rule of thumb. Too clever is dumb. - Ogden Nash
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. - Oscar Wilde
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. - Livy
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. - George Bernard Shaw
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Too clever is dumb. - Ogden Nash
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. - George Bernard Shaw
Clever tyrants are never punished. - Voltaire
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. - George Bernard Shaw
Someone who is a clever speaker and maintains a 'too-smiley' face is seldom considered a humane person. - Confucius
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. - Albert Schweitzer
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg