Clever Quotes - Page 25

• Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

  Jane Austen

  Home, Blessing, Years

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.2, MobileReference

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• For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining." Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri

  Shannon Hale

  Thinking, Listening, Goes On

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.113, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

  Ian Mcewan

  Feelings, Cheerful, Sigh

  FaceBook post by Ian McEwan from Jan 16, 2013

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• Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

  Michael Scott

  Lying, Men, Fool

  Michael Scott (2010). “The Necromancer”, p.160, Random House

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• But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

  John Green

  Drawing, Abstract, Said

  "Fictional characters: Frannie, Hazel Grace Lancaster". The Fault in Our Stars, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Phrases, My Smile

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• Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

  Eleanor Catton

  Life, Remember, Enough

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

  Douglas Adams

  Games, Skills, Experts

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2013). “The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sleep, Brave, Fists

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

  Lewis Carroll

  Needs, Stories, Moral

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• The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!

  Scott Westerfeld

  Eye, Men, Turtles

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.577, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Hate, Hard Work, Lazy

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Ifs

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

  A. A. Milne

  Thinking, Two, Three

  A. A. Milne (1999). “Pooh to Grow on”, E P Dutton

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• Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Fall, Neverland

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.23, 谷月社

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• He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.

  T. H. White

  Loyal, Sometimes, Sensitive

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.191, Penguin

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• When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

  Philippa Gregory

  Men, Want, Mystery

  Philippa Gregory (2012). “The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.

  Jojo Moyes

  Love You, Men, World

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• However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Fake, Scams

  Brandon Sanderson (2012). “The Emperor's Soul”, p.77, Tachyon Publications

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• The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Doctors, People, Together

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.39, Del Rey

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• Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

  A. A. Milne

  Silly, Book, Thinking

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.101, Egmont UK

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• When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

  Laini Taylor

  Math, Boys, Knees

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.268, Hachette UK

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• There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Thinking, Way

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• A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Witty, Children, Father

  Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman (2009). “Don Quixote”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the kissing. "Don't," said Adrian, his eyes ablaze and breathing ragged. "What if there's a crisis at school?" I asked. "What if Angeline 'accidentally' stole one of the campus buses and drove it into the library?" "Why would she do that?" "Are you saying she wouldn't?" He sighed. "Go check it.

  Richelle Mead

  School, Eye, Kissing

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