Quotes about Cleverness

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today. False teachers use high-sounding words that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

I have been assaulted by cleverness on all fronts.

Look, the American people are smart.

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

You have all the cleverness which makes a successful man. Have you the tact?

Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.

I don't think listening to Mr. Howard's arguments is likely to do me much harm. Mind you, I believe what I was brought up to believe. It saves a vast of bother—and back of it all, God is good. The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling.