Quotes About Misconception

You wouldn't believe what spite and superstition there is in the world.

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are.

Puisque moi-même j'ai longtemps été un pensionnaire dans un asile d'aliénés, je ne peux que relever les tendances sophistes de certains pensionnaires qui les entraînent à se tromper en commettant les erreurs d'appliquer la non causa et ignoratio elenchi et qui consiste à mésestimer l'effet par ignorance de la cause.

Like Mrs Pleasance I always fancy that misers are old. I cannot tell why this should be since I am sure that there are as many young misers as old. As to whether or not Mr Norrell was in fact old, he was the sort of man who had been old at seventeen.

Even the times I thought I was having casual sex, turned out I wasn't.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.

They mistake their star, these papery godfolk.

Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can! I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...

What did I think was wrong? That made it sound as if nothing was really wrong, I only thought is was wrong.

At first I didn't see what the trouble was. It wasn't a mirror at all, but a picture.

What did I think was wrong? That made it sound as if nothing was really wrong, I only thought it was wrong.

The only quiet woman is a dead one

that's not what I meant at all... that's not it at all.

I tell you, it is not me you are looking at, Not me you are grinning at, not me your confidential looks Incriminate, but that other person, if person, You thought I was: let your necrophily Feed upon that carcase

Would it have been worthwhile If one settling a pillow by her head should say: That is not what I meant at all That is not it at all

You can smack some people in the face with a haddock and they'll still call it a mouse if a mouse is what they want to see.

Well, no, but everyone says they do." Someday I must read this scholar Everyone, she thought as she bit her tongue to keep from giving a rude answer. He seems to have written so much—all of it wrong.

My wondrous book says you're a feline, and a carnivore, and a vertebrate, and a mammal. I wish them that wrote it could smell around here right now and maybe they wouldn't call you all those pretty names.

Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

What I told you, and what is true, may not be one and the same." "You do delight me. The thought of engineering more rumors seemed unexciting, not to say heavy-handed.

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn't true.

What you see, isn't always what you get

Explanation is a well-dressed error.