C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”
Source: White Cat
“Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.”
“Clever design converts and changes according to need.”
Source: Rethink: The Way You Live
“Clever fellows who repudiated each other nearly to the point of refusing to believe in each other's existence, they turned out to be like the two reels of a tape recorder with the tape running between them and broadcasting a recorded text.”
Source: The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being
“Clever folk aren’t popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They don’t fit in. They can be useful, as I proved on a number of occasions, but among the general population there’s always a sense of vague mistrust, as if the very qualities that make them indispensable also make them dangerous.”
Source: The Gospel of Loki
“Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.”
“Clever girl, he thought, looking at her, purposefully taking his time, and slowly catching a whiff of the inebriating perfume of her long and wavy dark-brown hair. Her delicate scent reminisced of vanilla-infused hyacinth.
He smiled and, although he was greatly tempted to move to first base, he felt it might push things a bit too fast.”
Source: The Siege at Simeon Heights: Bigfoot Fiction Thriller - Drama Novel - Family Adventure - Action Adventure - Sasquatch - Cryptid Suspense
“Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.”
Source: Three Junes
“Clever is as clever does.”
Source: Lucinda's Secret
“Clever is the eunuch version of funny.”
“Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!”
“Clever manipulators master the art of telling just enough of the truth to sell their lie.”
“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
“Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.”
“Clever move. Using humour to deflate my murderous intent.”
Source: Dalek Empire I: Chapter Three -Death to the Daleks!
“Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!”
“Clever of you, Hemul. But, on the other hand, think how lonely the Groke is because nobody likes her, and she hates everybody. The Contents is perhaps the only thing she has. Would you now take that away from her too -- lonely and rejected in the night?" Sniff became more and more affected and his voice trembled. "Cheated out of her only possession by Thingumy and Bob." He blew his nose and couldn't go on.”
Source: Finn Family Moomintroll
“Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.”
“Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!”
“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.”
“Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.”
Source: The Colby essays ...
“Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1952-1953, Tradition and creativity
“Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.”
Source: As the Pig Turns: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
“Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.”
“Clever, smart and wise people have one in common that they read quotes, they are curious for knowledge and they have big libraries!”
“Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.”
Source: The Best of Confucius
“Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.”
“Clever tyrants are never punished.”
“Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES.”
“Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.”
“Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.”
Source: Beloved
“Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.”
“Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made a religion; moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels.”
Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“Cleverly designed experiments are the key.”
“Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.”
“Cleverness in itself is useless. It’s like a peacock’s feathers – an extravagant display used by those who crave attention.
The mind’s worth is revealed when clever solves real problems.”
“Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.”
“cleverness is a disease.”
Source: A Breath of Air
“Cleverness is a gift. Kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy. They’re given, after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it will probably be to the detriment of your choices.”
Source: Jeff Bezos: In His Own Words
“Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.”
“Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.”
“Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.”
Source: The Penelopiad
“Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.”
“Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.”
“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
Source: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus
“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”
“Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever”
Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Cleverness without conscience is a calamity.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn