It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever – even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

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