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Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
- Ricky Gervais
For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
- Isaiah 10:13
The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.
- Donald Justice
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- CS Lewis
The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
- Julian Casablancas
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical
- Thomas Henry Huxley
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
- Oscar Wilde
thing we ask a servant for is a testimonial to honesty, sobriety and industry; for we soon find out that these are the scarce things, and that geniuses and clever people are as common as rats.
- Oscar Wilde
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- CS Lewis
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
- Cicero
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
- Jurgen Habermas