Elizabeth Wordsworth Professions : Poet Born : 1840 Died : 1932 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Elizabeth Wordsworth If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good! Elizabeth Wordsworth clever two people Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves. Elizabeth Wordsworth failing enough people it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole. Elizabeth Wordsworth genius character men In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to any woman to be told she writes, paints, sings, talks, or even thinks, like a man? Elizabeth Wordsworth writing men thinking Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
