Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Wordsworth

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a poet Elizabeth Wordsworth.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Elizabeth Wordsworth

Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840–1932) was founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and she funded and founded St Hugh's College. She was also an author, sometimes writing under the name Grant Lloyd. She was the great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth.

Poet | 1840 - 1932
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!
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.
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?
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
it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.
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