A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
Percy Ross

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
Calista Flockhart

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
Graham Greene

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
James Lovelock

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Russell Banks

And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.
Mary Tyler Moore

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
Iain Banks

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
Tony Randall

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
Charles Kingsley

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
John Carmack

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.
Tim Robbins

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
Mark Rylance

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
Kate Moss

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 men are good, but they are not the best.
Thomas Carlyle

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Frank Moore Colby