You, for example, clever to a fault, The rough and ready man who write apace, Read somewhat seldomer, think perhaps even less.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Bishop Blougram's  Apology'.

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

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  The Wisdom of Father Brown,'Paradise of  Thieves'.

Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden; man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken. Everything clever has been thought of before.We must try to think it again.

-Goethe,JohannWolfgang von
  Spru«  che in Prosa, Maximen und Reflexionen, pt.1.

Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but ittakes a veryclever womantomanagea fool.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Plain Tales from the Hills,'Three andöan Extra'.

   We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart; But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: 'It's clever, but is it Art?'

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Conundrum of the Workshops'.

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.

-Major,John
  Quoted in the Observer,7  Jul.