“cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?”
“Half smiling, with imperturbable brightness and friendliness, the Buddha looked steadily at the stranger and dismissed him with a hardly visible gesture. 'You are clever, O Samana,' said the Illustrious One, 'you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness.”
“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
“I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.”
“Too clever is dumb.”
“They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.”