CLEVERNESS

Related Subjects: Ability, Address, Craftsmanship, Epigram, Intellectuals, Intelligence, Originality, Skill, Wit

1. Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.—AMIEL, Journal
   

2. Clever men are good, but they are not the best.—CARLYLE, Goethe
   

3. It's clever, but is it art?—KIPLING, The Conundrum of the Workshops
   

4. It is great cleverness to know how to conceal one's cleverness.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

5. Too clever is dumb.—OGDEN NASH, When the Moon Shines
   

6. If all good people were clever,
   And all clever people were good,
   The world would be nicer than ever
   We thought that it possibly could.
   
   But somehow, 'tis seldom or never
   The two hit it off as they should;
   The good are so harsh to the clever,
   The clever so rude to the good.—ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH, The Clever and the Good