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
I bet you thought you were very clever, sneaking off like that." "Medium clever, "Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythbBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.
- Cassandra Clare
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- Margot Asquith
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- Margot Asquith
Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman. Grot-Grot had a bald patch on the top of her head, she was missing an eye and she smelled like a dead skunk. She did have a good sense of humour though.
- Aussiescribbler
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
- Jose Maria Aznar
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
- Oscar Wilde
You and Teacher," said Molly.
"Yes," said Peter. "She's very clever. You'll like her."
"I'm sure," said Molly.
- Dave Barry
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
- Rory Bremner
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
- Rudyard Kipling
[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
And she's very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her
- Suzanne Collins
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
Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?
- Agatha Christie
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
- Agatha Christie
You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.
- Terry Pratchett
I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
- John Crowley
O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.
- E E Cummings
This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.
- Charles Davenport
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
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he was very stupid, would be as unjust as to say that he had brought his troops to Moscow because he wished to and because he was very clever and a genius
- Leo Tolstoy
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
Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.
- Arthur Golden
Oberon:She's a very clever girl, the kind you dont' take home to Ogma.
- Kevin Hearne
That is the point: They whisper. They daren't confide in each other not knowing who to trust they are scared to speak out in case their suspicions are true and their families ate targeted. Yes 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
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
Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
- Kate Moss
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 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
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
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
- Patrice Leconte
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration.
- Charles Spurgeon
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
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
Alan had still stopped her in her tracks with one of those slow, devastating kisses at her side door.He hadn't insisted on coming in.Shelby might have been grateful for that if she hadn't suspected it was just part of his planned siege.Confuse the enemy, assail her with doubts, leave her with her nerve ends tingling.Very clever strategy.
- Nora Roberts
That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed up in a cheap fur coat.
- J D Salinger
You think you're a very clever fellow, don't you?" Saldur challenged.
"No, Your Grace," Merrick replied. "Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. I'm not cleverI'm a genius.
- Michael J Sullivan
- Chinua Achebe
I bet you thought you were very clever, sneaking off like that." "Medium clever, "Simon acknowledged. "Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven and those MythbBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.
- Cassandra Clare
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- Margot Asquith
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
- Margot Asquith
Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman. Grot-Grot had a bald patch on the top of her head, she was missing an eye and she smelled like a dead skunk. She did have a good sense of humour though.
- Aussiescribbler
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
- Jose Maria Aznar
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
- Oscar Wilde
You and Teacher," said Molly.
"Yes," said Peter. "She's very clever. You'll like her."
"I'm sure," said Molly.
- Dave Barry
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
- Rory Bremner
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
- Rudyard Kipling
[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
And she's very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her
- Suzanne Collins
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
Is she a very clever little actress, acting a part? Or is she a genuine semi-moronic suicidal victim?
- Agatha Christie
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
- Agatha Christie
You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.
- Terry Pratchett
I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
- John Crowley
O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.
- E E Cummings
This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.
- Charles Davenport
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
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he was very stupid, would be as unjust as to say that he had brought his troops to Moscow because he wished to and because he was very clever and a genius
- Leo Tolstoy
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
Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.
- Arthur Golden
Oberon:She's a very clever girl, the kind you dont' take home to Ogma.
- Kevin Hearne
That is the point: They whisper. They daren't confide in each other not knowing who to trust they are scared to speak out in case their suspicions are true and their families ate targeted. Yes 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
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
Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
- Kate Moss
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 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
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
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
- Patrice Leconte
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration.
- Charles Spurgeon
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
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
Alan had still stopped her in her tracks with one of those slow, devastating kisses at her side door.He hadn't insisted on coming in.Shelby might have been grateful for that if she hadn't suspected it was just part of his planned siege.Confuse the enemy, assail her with doubts, leave her with her nerve ends tingling.Very clever strategy.
- Nora Roberts
That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed up in a cheap fur coat.
- J D Salinger
You think you're a very clever fellow, don't you?" Saldur challenged.
"No, Your Grace," Merrick replied. "Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. I'm not cleverI'm a genius.
- Michael J Sullivan
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