“A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.”– George Meredith Related Quotes “People demand freedom only when they have no power.”– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.”– Tom Stoppard “The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.”– David Bailey