Top 42 A Clever Woman Quotes
#1. Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.
John Steinbeck
#2. Stick to the needle, learn shirt-making and gown-making and piecrust-making, and you will be a clever woman some day.
Charlotte Bronte
#3. I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
Patrick Demarchelier
#4. 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!
Marie Corelli
#6. Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's cleverness there's no heart? Has it not been decided that a clever woman is a sort of monster who can feel nothing? Ask anyone, they'll all tell you so.
Karolina Pavlova
#7. After all, then, she was not a clever woman, - not more clever than other women around her!
Anthony Trollope
#8. She looked,' said Alec Guthrie dryly, 'like a clever woman who was not unaware that five ill-dressed passers-by were displaying an unhealthy interest in her personal life.
Dorothy Dunnett
#9. For the male sickness of self-contempt, the surest cure is to be loved by a clever woman
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
Philippa Gregory
#11. Maybe, but she knows too much and she's clever too. She's just a girl now, but one day she'll be a woman and a clever woman's dangerous.
Joseph Delaney
#12. 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.
Marian Keyes
#13. 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 they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
Elizabeth Cadell
#14. Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is
Lesley Downer
#15. A clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves ...
Kerstin Gier
#16. The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. Whenever a woman smiled his way, she'd already begun dividing her life into trimesters.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#18. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese
#19. You're a grown woman, and a clever one. I believe you understand the situation. And I'm going to trust that you know your own mind.
Tessa Dare
#20. I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
Patrick Ness
#21. The students in your youth ministry don't need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model - a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith.
Doug Fields
#22. Your talk's so clever it makes my head spin,' Milva snorted. 'And all your wisdom comes down to what's under a woman's skirt. Woeful philosophers.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#23. I love 'Girls.' The writing is so clever. I think Lena Dunham is a genius. I can't believe she writes it, directs it and stars in it. It's really exciting that a young woman has been able to achieve all of that.
Helen George
#24. Daddy thinks that Mama is everything a woman should be: beautiful, clever, charming. Beauty has a way of making the bad things tolerable. When Mama tilts her green eyes at you, it's hard to remember why you were mad in the first place.
Jenny Han
#25. She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is - a cat!"
But that was not how his mind saw her - quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding.
Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?
Cordwainer Smith
#26. A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.
Euripides
#27. This was dangerous talk - in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of an ugly wife and yet more women of an attractive rival.
Joss Alexander
#28. Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a back seat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.
Anne Mallory
#29. A shy smile, strong arms, clever fingers, and two sure swords. What more could any woman want?
George R R Martin
#30. A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.
Mary Lascelles
#31. I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.
Gregory David Roberts
#32. Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no sheep!"
Jim Rohn
#33. Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#34. Yes. My mother, for one. As a child I loved her, despite knowing so little about her. But now, knowing everything she has done, how stubborn she can be, how blind, how strong, how clever ... knowing her as a woman, I love her so much more.
Meljean Brook
#35. My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
Ian Hislop
#36. She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar Wilde
#37. Yes, the woman." Cunco took a deep breath. "Women like her don't come along that often, you know. Maybe only every two hundred years. She everything a man could dream of. Beautiful, clever, wise, considerate, passionate--absolutely everything.
Nina George
#38. The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling
#39. A woman's mind is her most precious weapon. It must not be employed clumsily or prematurely. Much like the aforementioned knife in the back, a clever gibe is most effective when it is unanticipated.
Brandon Sanderson
#40. When a man is clever enough and knows his quarry well enough to choose such a time and place to propose marriage, well, a woman was a goner.
J.D. Robb
#41. Today's "housewife" is a sassy, clever, opinionated woman who faces challenges head-on and never shies from telling it like it is
all the while hoping to create a happy "home life," regardless of what kind of home she has and who lives there.
Brandi Glanville
#42. Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman. Grot-Grot had a bald patch on the top of her head, she was missing an eye and she smelled like a dead skunk. She did have a good sense of humour though.
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