„But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?“

— Cassandra Clare
„But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.“
— A.A. Milne
„cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?“
— Cassandra Clare
„Dionysus:Be clever, Ariadne! …You have little ears; you have my ears:Put a clever word in them! —Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? …I am your labyrinth …“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„I am not very clever about Americanisms — and I understand they change very quickly.“
— Agatha Christie