“Intellect, like a woman's attraction, seduction and elegance, are innate qualities.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: L'intelletto, come l'attrazione, seduzione ed eleganza di una donna, sono qualità innate.
Source: prevale.net
"Of Women"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism
“Intellect, like a woman's attraction, seduction and elegance, are innate qualities.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: L'intelletto, come l'attrazione, seduzione ed eleganza di una donna, sono qualità innate.
Source: prevale.net
“Seduction is a woman's innate security.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) La seduzione è la sicurezza innata di una donna.
Source: prevale.net
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!”
Rudyard Kipling book Plain Tales from the Hills
Three and—an Extra.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain
“No clever person can help here; I see that clearly. Here, only stupidity can help the stupid one!”
Original: (de) "Hier hilft kein Kluger, das seh’ ich klar: hier hilft dem Dummen die Dummheit allein!"
Source: Quotes from his operas, Siegfried, Mime, the dwarf (and master metal-smith), Act 1, Scene 3
“Silly people say stupid things, clever people do them.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Alberne Leute sagen Dummheiten. Gescheite Leute machen sie.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 70.
Donald O'Brien (actor) (1930–2003) Italian film and TV actor
Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)
“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
G. K. Chesterton book The Innocence of Father Brown
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Paradise of Thieves
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)