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Clever Quotes
Lines that admire quick thinking and inventive minds.
Cleverness shows up in a sibling who worked out the family's puzzles first, in songwriters who favor sharp lyrics, and in teammates who find ways around a defense without breaking the rules. This page rounds up quotes about that kind of quick, inventive thinking. For related pages see Clever People.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
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A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
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If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.
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The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.
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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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It's up to me to use my brain, be clever, find the pockets of space, and get on the ball.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
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Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
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I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
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