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Quotes About Perception

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
~ Oscar Wilde
Never met a wiseman if so it's a woman!
~ Kurt Cobain
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
~ Anton Chekhov
For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.
~ Molly Haskell
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
~ Washington Irving
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
~ William Shakespeare
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
~ Coco Chanel
I won't sleep in the same bed with a woman who thinks I'm lazy! I'm going right downstairs, unfold the couch, unroll the sleeping ba- uh, goodnight.
~ Dan Castellaneta
The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
~ Emily Murphy
Now what I love in women is, they won't or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it so well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
~ Lord Byron
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
~ Andrea Dworkin
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
~ Anita Loos
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.
~ Unknown
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
~ Otto Weininger
All married women are not wives.
~ Japanese Proverb
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
~ Maya Angelou
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
~ Coco Chanel
There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
~ Pablo Picasso
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
~ Madame de Stael