A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.