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Quotes About Misconception

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
~ Hermione Gingold
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
~ Booker T. Washington
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
~ Rose Macaulay
The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
~ Dorothy Parker
Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other
~ Patrice O'Neal
Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.
~ Marcello Mastroianni
Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.
~ Theodore von Karman
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
~ Thomas Beecham
British women can't cook.
~ Prince Philip
Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
~ Camilo Villegas
The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.
~ Sean Young
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
~ Jean Kerr
People have this misconception that I'm going to beat them up when I meet them. But it's like... no. Just 'cause I stand up for myself, and I'm honest, that doesn't mean I'm going to beat people up all the time.
~ Danielle Bregoli
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
~ Hugh Downs
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
~ John Henry Newman
We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
~ Ronald Reagan
Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
~ Lucan
I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.
~ Annette Funicello
Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.
~ Matthew Arnold
A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he's that man.
~ Scarlett Johansson
A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.
~ Stanley Coren
Only grown-up men are scared of women.
~ Ernest Lehman