Quotes About Perception

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him

Look your best--who said love is blind?

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they are mistaken.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Girlfriends have a come hither look. Wives have a hitherto look.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

How could a man ever trust in a woman's judgment when he knows she chose him for a husband?

Its not true that men forget they're married when they see a pretty woman. Just the opposite, thats when they're most painfully reminded of it.