When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“For the male sickness of self-contempt, the surest cure is to be loved by a clever woman” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My wife is a very clever woman. She knows when to say something and when to bite her tongue. — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
“Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Stick to the needle, learn shirt-making and gown-making and piecrust-making, and you will be a clever woman some day.” — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“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… — Elizabeth Cadell Copy Share Image
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Then says Mrs. Hauksbee to me – she looked a trifle faded and jaded in the lamplight: “Take my word for it,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living.… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's… — Karolina Pavlova Copy Share Image
“shook hands very cordially; and yet I always feel him shrinking sensitively from me, as a woman, a clever woman, an up… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves...” — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“It is the fashion nowadays to undervalue the art of making a home; to deem it simplicity and easiness itself. But this… — Flora Annie Steel Copy Share Image
“Obviously the household of Richard the Fair was unused to hearing the magician laugh. Even Richard himself stopped pawing his willing partner… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Well, I am rather afraid of that visit," said Clifford. "It seems to me it will be rather like going to school… — Henry James Copy Share Image
