Clever Quotes
Lines that admire quick thinking and inventive minds.
Cleverness shows up in a sibling who worked out the family's puzzles first, in songwriters who favor sharp lyrics, and in teammates who find ways around a defense without breaking the rules. This page rounds up quotes about that kind of quick, inventive thinking. For related pages see Clever People.
I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
Louis CK is so brilliant and smart and clever and funny and also very bizarre.
If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.
The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
It's up to me to use my brain, be clever, find the pockets of space, and get on the ball.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
I would like to say a few things about that photo in 'Tatler'. I have no regrets. The article was about the 20 cleverest people in England, covered up only by the thing that makes them clever. A saxophonist, for...
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Whether it is a playful line about a scheming cat or praise for hard-won wit, these quotes treat clever thinking as worth noticing. Continue on to Cleverness or check Cleverest quotes for more.
