Clever Quotes - Page 15

• Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

  Winston Churchill

  Beautiful, Fancy, Eating

  Winston Churchill (1963). “The Yankee Marlborough”

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• I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Wrinkles, Blonde, Gravitas

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• I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, People, I Realized

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• Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Fool, Mystery

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Worst, Knows

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.60, Whitaker House

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• It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

  Keith Jarrett

  Sorry, Voice, World

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• Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Home, Reality

  Jerome K. Jerome “Clocks”, Library of Alexandria

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• Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

  Kate Upton

  Witty, Thinking, Lines

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• I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

  Elton John

  Fans, Stuff, Bigs

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• I don't think there's any clever way for the establishment to take Donald Trump down. It's very simple. Another candidate is going to have to find a way either to out-maneuver him, or to just frankly beat him in the argument.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Simple, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.

  Christopher Strachey

  Impossible, Consequence

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• Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.

  Vandana Shiva

  Diversity, Perspective, Energy

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Song, Fans, Huge

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• I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Thinking, Giving, Actors

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it is actually. She is classy and clever and smart and sharp.

  Gemma Arterton

  Smart, Thinking, Honor

  "Female Bond-ing". Interview with Bonnie Laufer-Krebs, quantumofsolace.tribute.ca.

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• I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Marriage, Bridal Shower

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• Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Believe, Men

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• To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

  Hugh Laurie

  Boys, Shapes, Form

  Interview with Emma Thompson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Two, People, Kind

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• I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

  Banksy

  Art, Years, Graffiti

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

  Charles Bukowski

  Nice, Heart, Sleep

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.207, Canongate Books

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• The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Children, Yield, Feet

  "The Sparrow". Book by Mary Doria Russell, October, 1996.

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• It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Insult, Said, Chaps

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Queens, Looks, Mouths

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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• ...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped... Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.

  E. Nesbit

  Book, Reading, Doors

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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