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Quotes About Misconceptions

There is no such thing as a frigid woman, there are only incompetent men.
~ Doris Lessing
It's a fact that men of all nations are convinced that men of any other nation are no good for women. I'm sure a statistically significant number of women would be able to vouch for this. And listen how you talk. You are bitter already. When I hear a woman use words like statistics, I know she is bitter.
~ Doris Lessing
For she is remembering Paul's saying: There is no such thing as a frigid woman, there are only incompetent men.
~ Doris Lessing
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction "from the woman's point of view." To such demands, one can only say "Go away and don't be silly. You might as well ask what is the female angle on an equilateral triangle.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
~ Dorothy Parker
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
~ Douglas Adams
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons. Curiously
~ Douglas Adams
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reasons.
~ Douglas Adams
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.
~ Douglas Preston
Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most
~ Aesop
These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.
~ Agatha Christie
Men, they never think.
~ Agatha Christie
The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna - though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portugese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson.
~ Agatha Christie
people are capable of surprising one frightfully. One gets an idea of them into one's head, and sometimes it's absolutely wrong. Not always - but sometimes.
~ Agatha Christie
That's different. She's a woman, and women act in that silly way. I'm not saying she did it for a moment. She heard he was accused and she trumped up a story. I'm used to that sort of game. You wouldn't believe the fool things I've known women do.
~ Agatha Christie
I'm a man. You're a woman." "Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.
~ Agatha Christie
There's a general belief that athletes aren't overburdened by brains (not at all true by the way), but I can't believe Nevile Strange is a complete moron.
~ Agatha Christie
Las mujeres no acostumbran a ser crueles con los hombres, a menos de que se trate de uno en particular; solo lo somos con las mujeres.
~ Agatha Christie
Men—" said Miss Williams, and stopped. As a rich property owner says "Bolsheviks"—as an earnest Communist says "Capitalists!"—as a good housewife says "Blackbeetles"—so did Miss Williams say "Men!
~ Agatha Christie
A woman gets into a relationship hoping to change the man. A man gets into a relationship hoping that the woman doesn't change. Both realize how gravely mistaken they are
~ Ahmed Korayem
Dar acum, in loc de ratiune, multa lume se foloseste de dorinte, vise, mantre si incantatii. Incearca sa se vindece folosind cristale, magneti si ierburi cu proprietati necunoscute. Ti se ofera o pastila facuta din frunza unei plante necunoscute si ti se spune: "Ia-o, n-are cum sa-ti faca rau, e naturala." Dar naturala e si matraguna.
~ Alan Alda
You know what I hate most of all in the whole wide world?...More than people who think that if you're bisexual it means you'll fuck absolutely anyone (especially them)?
~ Alan Cumming
The commitment of marriage can frequently arouse some rather peculiar behaviour in men and women alike, but the bizarre notion that one can change the character of one's mate seems to occur more often to women than to men.
~ Alan Jay Lerner