A Quote by Beatrice Webb

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?

Beatrice Webb

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Beatrice Webb
British - Sociologist
January 2, 1858 - April 30, 1943

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys' school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls' school.

Rachael Stirling

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

Benjamin Disraeli

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

Miguel de Cervantes

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

Harlan Ellison

Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?

Paul Arden

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

Christoph Martin Wieland

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

Chris O'Dowd

How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

Gore Vidal

It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.

Martin Amis

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

Edith Wharton

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.