Young ladies Quote by Samuel Butler

“All young ladies are either very pretty or very clever or very sweet; they may take their choice as to which category they will…

— Samuel Butler

“A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.”

— Mary Lascelles

“We liked to be known as the clever girls.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“I hate to be what is called a clever girl--there are too many of that sort now!”

— Thomas Hardy

“Your wit is an education for me, Miss Boyce. I’d not realized that cleverness could coincide with such feminine graces.”

— Meredith Duran

“...he was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.”

— Margaret Atwood

“No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past…

— Kien Nguyen

“Plain girls who were also clever were a ha'pence a dozen.”

— Julie Anne Long

“when she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.”

— Nevada Barr

“She was twenty-five before it occurred to her that she could have insulted him back, but the rule of life was that the boys…

— Liane Moriarty

“This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!”

— Shannon Hale

“Few girls would choose to be right – right, down into their clever, brilliant bones – but lonely.”

— Caitlin Moran