#Cleverness Quotes

“Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”

“Clever tyrants are never punished.”

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”

“I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”

“There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.”

“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”

“A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.”

“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. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.”

“It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.”

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

“When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.”

“The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.”

“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”

“The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.”

“We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.”

“There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.”

“The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”

“Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.”

“The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.”

“The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.”

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”

“It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.”

“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.”

“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”

“a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.”

“The bold are helpless without cleverness.”