Clever Woman Quotes

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

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 men don't. Men please themselves.

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

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

the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

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

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

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

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

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.