Elizabeth Wordsworth Quotes

1840–1932 England

Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth DBE (22 June 1840 – 30 November 1932) was founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and she funded and founded St Hugh's College. She was also an author, occasionally writing under the name Grant Lloyd.

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She was a gentlewoman, a scholar, and a saint, and after having been three times married, she took a vow of celibacy. What more could be expected of any woman?

On Lady Margaret Beaufort. Glimpses of the Past (1912)

If all the good people were clever,
And all clever people were good,
The world would be nicer than ever
We thought that it possibly could.
But somehow, ’tis seldom or never
The two hit it off as they should;
The good are so harsh to the clever,
The clever so rude to the good!

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