Quotes About Perception

I've been doing the hotel accounting long enough to know that two and two equals whatever you want it to be. It's simply a matter of perception and misdirection.

Religion was by and large constructed by men, and I had yet to find a man who was logical.

I nodded, completely understanding his desire to get away from people, especially people who were judging your ability to do your job when they really had zero idea what that job entailed.

boobs are twice as large as normal. From where I sit, that's pretty

men think the uterus is a tracking device.)

Everything Jane Austen read came alive, but, at the same time, her natural empathy with those she encountered through her reading was kept in check by a keen sense of the ridiculous and of the potential absurdity of emotional display.

When you're sixteen or seventeen meaning can be anywhere. A drop of rain running down the window is a symbol, a song comes on the radio just when you longed for it, you have the same initials as the boy for whom you're sick, secret messages await you in poems. It's like living in a net of logic, of systems of words and significance.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

She [Mrs. Bennet] was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

a latent belief in the spontaneity of nature.

I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

I always thought I should meet you. My cousin used to tell me how queer you were. I think, though, that you can make friends more quickly with queer people. Or else you don't make friends with them at all—one way or the other.

Lord, is it I . . .? There is so much good in the worst of us And so much bad in the best of us That it behoves not any of us To talk about the rest of us.

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.