Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
Billy Wilder

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Arthur Wellesley

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
Jilly Cooper

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Kerr

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Margot Asquith

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
Dick Schaap

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
Paul Weller

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.
Thomas Haden Church

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
Daisy Donovan

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
John Crowley

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
Jack Dee

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.
Tom Felton

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
Mary A. Ward

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel