Clever Quote by Lauren Willig

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

there is such a mistaken notion abroad in this country that the individual who makes sharp remarks must be sincere, while the one who…

— J. E. Buckrose

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

— Horace

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

— François De La Rochefoucauld

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

— Oliver Goldsmith

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

— Robin Hobb

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

“Better foolish and honest than clever and false.”

— Paula Brackston

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.

— Chinese Proverbs

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

— Augustus Hare