It's clever, but is it Art?
Rudyard Kipling

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
Gilbert Parker

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Margot Asquith

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.
Whitfield Diffie

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Albert Schweitzer

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Titus Livius

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
Philip Pullman

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

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
Karl Philipp Moritz

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Israel Zangwill

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
Mark Haddon

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
John Major