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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. -- John Peel
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. -- Margot Asquith
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! -- Honore de Balzac
Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind. -- Mickey Rooney
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. -- Jose Maria Aznar
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. -- Rudyard Kipling
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. -- Leo Tolstoy
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. -- George Bernard Shaw
The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America. -- Rand Paul
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty. -- Ian Hislop
I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to. -- Craig Ferguson
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults. -- Miles Franklin
I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong. -- Janna Levin
How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb. -- Gore Vidal
Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes. -- Bernard Lietaer
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do. -- Paul Auster
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. -- Chinua Achebe
Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin. -- Glenn Close
He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things to set up other people; he could shoot and he could score goals. If you gave me Paul Scholes and ten others, I would be happy. I would tell them to give him the ball and then we would have a good team. -- Sven-Goran Eriksson
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards -- Rudyard Kipling
My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy. -- C. Thomas Howell
Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease. -- David Cronenberg
This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat. -- Charles Davenport
One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
And she's very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her -- Suzanne Collins
Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs. -- PZ Myers
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. -- Albert Einstein
Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive. -- Kate Upton
I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard. -- Wendi Deng Murdoch
My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever. -- Nico Rosberg
My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever. -- Nico Rosberg
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them. -- Charles Bukowski
I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare. -- John Crowley
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. -- Patrice Leconte
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. -- Oscar Wilde
Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked. -- Kate Moss
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all. -- Criss Jami
You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day. -- Terry Pratchett
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia. -- Samuel West
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there. -- Allison Anders
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. -- George Pell
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift. -- Rory Bremner
In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart. -- Jane Goodall
That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down -- Eva Longoria
I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was. -- Maureen Dowd
I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever. -- Thomas Haden Church
Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear. -- J. K. Rowling
With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever. -- Les Dawson
Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality. -- C.J. Anderson
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time -- George Bernard Shaw
When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words. -- Roger Kahn
George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words. -- Bill Cosby
I was very precocious. I was pleased with myself. I thought I was very good-looking and I thought I was very clever - and I was. -- Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say. -- C. S. Lewis
Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared. -- Richard Digance
The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing. -- Peter Capaldi
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. -- Hugh Laurie
I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that. -- David Tennant
The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking. -- Agyness Deyn
Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are. -- Yoko Ono
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
Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's. -- Franz Beckenbauer
Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls! -- Suzanne Collins
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I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug. -- Erik Naggum
DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another. -- Ada Yonath
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! -- Anthony Minghella

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