Quotes about Perception

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Oh that. Men do fall in love with me. They seem to think me a creature with volcanic passions; I'm sure I don't know why. All the volcanic women I know are plain little creatures with sandy hair. I don't consider human volcanoes respectable. And I'm so tired of the subject. Our house is always full of women in love with my husband and men in love with me. We encourage it because it's pleasant to have company.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

Getting over an unfavorable impression is ever so much easier than living up to an ideal.

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside