Quotes About Stereotype

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Nuns evidently did not evoke the same primitive angry dread as monks.

Tall men are the most romantically successful group on earth, bar none: more successful than rich people, accomplished people and educated people.

That's all I know, except that he's probably straight." The landlady gave him a sly smile. "That's what he told you? He's probably straight?" He laughed. "Well, he's currently in love with Bruce Springsteen, so I just assumed he was." "Now wait a minute.

Can a Filipina be depicted as smart without having to shout all the time? Or down-to-earth and honest without having to start every sentence with a snarky 'Hay nako' or 'Alam mo bah'?

Round-headed, he muttered. Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?

No woman has ever killed a man while he was washing dishes.

A clean house is a sign of mental inferiority.

There's no denying, for instance, that my clever Julia is a fool and my lovely Arabella is a—    Flirt, Mrs. Halloran said.    Well, I was going to say tart, but it's your house, after all.

She had found that men who were outstandingly handsome were either monumentally stupid or unbearably dull.

All rich Americans are crazy, especially their women.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]

He is convinced--and what immigrant isn't?--that all Americans are crazy.

Gay men are French women...with penises.

Onder een lantaren stonden zij stil, en uitdagend hief zij het gezicht naar hem op, in trotse houding: de eeuwig stereotiepe stand van de slavin, die, gekeurd op de markt, meesteres weet te zijn over de aanstaande meester. (p.125)

Je suis un intellectuel. Ça m'agace qu'on fasse de ce mot une insulte : les gens ont l'air de croire que le vide de leur cerveau leur meuble les couilles.

She was a woman with a working brain and no work.

As she went dragging through the prickly-hot street she reflected that a citizen of Gopher Prairie does not have jests-he has a jest.

the taxi-driver gave Sam his first welcome to America. Wherejuh wanna go? he growled. It shocked Sam to find how jarred he was by this demonstration of democracy. Like most Americans in Paris, he had been insisting that all French taxi-drivers were bandits, but now they seemed to him like playful and cuddling children.

Mrs. Spinney had red hair and alimony;

An American thinks of a good cook as a low person; a European respects him as an artist.

I've often noticed that people equate "having a sense of humour" with "being an insensitive moron.")

In real life I'm a tall, blond Christian.