(156 quotes found)
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
“When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
Winston Churchill
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
C.S. Lewis
“I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.”
Albert Einstein
“Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.”
“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.”
W. C. Fields
“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all”
Chinese Proverbs