Quotes About Perception

It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

They call me the confuser. Is he a man... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind.

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

I do think men fear female intuition.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.