clever quotes

10 quotes

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Benjamin Disraeli

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

Jurgen Klopp

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They’re my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He’s just really cool.

Aurora

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Voltaire

I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Woody Allen

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Oscar Wilde