10 Metaphors for cleverness

Cleverness is always a tax, but before luncheon it is an extortion.

Still, the Rose and the Graal are but symbols of the eternal verities, not those verities themselves in their essences; and in these later days when we have become cleverwith the cleverness of the Performing Pigit is a great thing to find the most obscure and broken indications of the things which really are.

The artist's cleverness became the subject of conversation at the breakfast table, and Arthur remarked: "You won't be able to hold Hetty in Millville long.

But cleverness is the bane of Female Tragedy especially.

My cleverness was my ruin.

His linguistic cleverness was a fair specimen of his general quickness of intellect.

Besides" she smiled mockingly"for all his cleverness and his wickedness George is a fooljust the usual vain fool that most men are about women.

Besides" she smiled mockingly"for all his cleverness and his wickedness George is a fooljust the usual vain fool that most men are about women.

But your cleverness has been so much pure loss, for your amiable confederates are waiting in the street to thrust you back into the midst of the flames again.

Cleverness, like beauty, is its own excuse for being, and the first attribute of the new woman is her cleverness.

10 Metaphors for  cleverness