What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. – Billy Wilder
The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he’s got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them. – Bernard Sumner
Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn’t make it right. – Andrew Ross Sorkin
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea. – Al Yankovic
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. – Benjamin Disraeli
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. – Cornel West
If you’re clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot. – Dana Brunetti
I always feel for the younger cast members in ‘Game of Thrones.’ They’re really clever and smart. – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten. – Maria Lassnig
I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the ‘Three Stooges’ were geniuses. They’d have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. – Paula Poundstone
I don’t like this idea of division: that if you’re a clever woman then you’ve got to be a particular way. Because men don’t. Men please themselves. – Marian Keyes
I think ‘Rake’ was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A. – Miranda Otto
There’s been so many different types of musicals, and it’s a funny genre because there’s a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it. – Melissa Etheridge
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they’re quite clever. I’ve seen them pick people apart. – Mark Thomas
Foursquare’s adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. – Fred Wilson
I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We’re very clever and extremely resourceful – and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I’m sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question. – David Attenborough
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. – Edsger Dijkstra