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Quotes About Interaction

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
~ Albert Pike
In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
~ Lord Byron
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
~ Mason Cooley
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.
~ Philip K. Dick
I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away.
~ Henny Youngman
I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.
~ Hugh Leonard
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
~ Jonathan Swift
Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.
~ Kin Hubbard
Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.
~ Samuel Johnson
Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact".
~ Sherry Argov
A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
~ Victoria Wood
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
~ Walter Bagehot
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.
~ Michael Gurian
all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.
~ Agatha Christie
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
~ Aldo Leopold
It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.
~ Alice-Leone Moats
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
~ Anatole France
I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.
~ Andrej Pejic
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
~ Anthony Trollope
During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.
~ Arnold Bennett