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Quotes About Stereotype

It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
As a rule, from what I've observed, the American captain of industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a captain of industry again.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
As a rule, from what I've observed, the American captain of industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a captain of industry again.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
~ Pat Conroy
He did look like an Italian of the worse type, though Vic didn't think he was, and it was an insult to the Italian race to assume that he was. He resembled no particular race, only an amalgamation of the worst elements of various Latin peoples. He looked as if he had spent all his life dodging blows that were probably aimed at him for good reason.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Look what happened to John Stuart Mill when he openly and fully acknowledged the intellectual contribution made by Harriet Taylor to his work! At first he was not taken seriously, but when he continued to insist that Harriet Taylor's intellectual stature was comparable to his own, he was perceived as besotted, as swayed by the wiles of an unscrupulous woman, and his declaration was dismissed.
~ Dale Spender
A True Born Englishman's a contradiction! In speech and irony, in fact a fiction
~ Daniel Defoe
"Behind every successful man is a woman – with nothing to wear."
~ L. Grant Glickman
All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire
~ Grace Slick
It seemed at first that everybody was more concerned with my age.
~ Jonny Lang
Most women have no characters at all.
~ Alexander Pope
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.
~ Wilkie Collins
Protestantism and beer have dulled German wit.
~ Will Durant
The dirty Arab children sold peanuts from the top of the basket and hashish from the bottom. They spoke a masterful unintimidated French in guttural gasps, coming from a land where it was regarded neither as the most beautiful language, as in America, nor the only one, as in France.
~ William Gaddis
Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
~ William Gibson
Soon they'll be saying you're a girl ate what was given her .
~ China Mieville
I'm basically the healthiest fat guy you've ever seen.
~ Chris Christie
Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
~ Chris Rock
I love being famous. It's almost like being white.
~ Chris Rock
If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.
~ Christina Baker Kline
All men are dogs
~ Christina Stead
The Post articles consistently referred to me as "he," "Jorgensen," or "the Bronx man," as though I were some anthropological missing link.
~ Christine Jorgensen
All German women are beautiful.
~ Heidi Klum