Skip to content

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!

— Elizabeth Wordsworth

Another quote →

More quotes by Elizabeth Wordsworth

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)

All Elizabeth Wordsworth quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Wordsworth (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.