Clever - Cleverness Quotes

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Clever people needn’t be good; they can simulate.

You should never be clever but when you cannot help it.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.