Application Quote by Tessa Dare

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't…

— Yoko Ono

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

cleverness is a disease.

— Rumer Godden

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

— Ann Coulter

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Rudyard Kipling

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers…

— Florence King

I think the cleverness is inadvertent.

— Mike Birbiglia

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

— Oscar Wilde

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

— Oscar Wilde