For the male sickness of self-contempt, the surest cure is…

“Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is”

— Lesley Downer

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

— Philippa Gregory

My wife is a very clever woman. She knows when to say something and when to bite her tongue.

— Gino D'Acampo

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years…

— Stacy Schiff

“Stick to the needle, learn shirt-making and gown-making and piecrust-making, and you will be a clever woman some day.”

— Charlotte Bronte

“You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose…

— Elizabeth Cadell

the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are…

— Marie Corelli

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

— Adah Isaacs Menken

“Then says Mrs. Hauksbee to me – she looked a trifle faded and jaded in the lamplight: “Take my word for it, the silliest…

— Rudyard Kipling

“Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.”

— John Steinbeck

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

— Rudyard Kipling

“Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's cleverness there's…

— Karolina Pavlova

“shook hands very cordially; and yet I always feel him shrinking sensitively from me, as a woman, a clever woman, an up to date…

— Virginia Woolf

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

— Oscar Wilde