Clever Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

— Rudyard Kipling

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

— Honore de Balzac

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

— Israel Zangwill

A clever wife often sleeps with a stupid husband.

— Anonymous

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

— Paul Valery

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

— Oscar Wilde

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

— Simon Gray

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.

— Groucho Marx

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close,…

— Margaret Atwood

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

— Oscar Wilde

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 cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

— Dorothy Parker