Quotes About Perception

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

On or about December, 1910, human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered, or that a hen had laid an egg. The change was not sudden and definite like that.

It is the masculine values that prevail… This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what is above.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Michel en a marre d'être seul. Alors il s'est amputé d'une partie de son cerveau, histoire de ne pas voir la fille comme elle était: une emmerdeuse de premier ordre.

Me hace gracia, desde entonces, escuchar como los hombres disertan sobre la estupidez de las mujeres que adoran el poder, el dinero o la fama, como si adorar un liguero fuera menos estúpido...

Ce n'est pas parce qu'une fille est vieille et moche qu'elle est moins chiante et exigeante qu'une bombasse de vingt ans. Ce qui caractérise les femmes, c'est qu'elles peuvent faire profil bas pendant des mois avant d'annoncer la couleur.

Una mujer con estilo de puta le interesa a casi todo el mundo.