Quotes About Observation

A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

You never see an old man eating a Twix

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

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.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

What men have seen they know. . . .

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

Beware of a man with manners.

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.