“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”
“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”
“If you violate laws of God, you re a sinner. If you violate laws of men, you re a criminal. If you violate your own laws, you re pathetic.”
“The playboy is not necessarily a man who has many girlfriends, or a man who has many women, or a man who has slept with many women. That is old. But there is a new breed of the playboy and he is the man who remains single in attempts to make every woman feel as if he belongs to her, he remains a virgin in order to make every woman feel like she will be the first one, and in the end he may choose a very unattractive woman to adorn his side, so that in all circumstances, he will shine as the more beautiful one. This is the new breed of playboy. And it is a very evil one.”
“Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.”
“I wouldn t want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely”
“Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men”
“When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
“Men sucked. They were the root of every problem any woman could ever have. They were the reason for bras, the need for makeup, hair stylists, shaving legs, and high heels that made the arch feel like it had a steel rod slammed up it. They were picky, arrogant, argumentative, and so damned certain of themselves <...>.”
“Boys are beyond the range of anybody s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.”
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
“There comes a time in a man s life when he hears the call of the sea. Hey, YOU! are the sea s exact words. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.”
“Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.”
“Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.”
“Men are always complaining about how difficult it is to understand women but I think it is the other way round. Men clan up and do not express what they feel. Then they suddenly stop all communication with you and vanish. All you can do is wait. I wish men came with instruction manual.”
“Marrying a man is like buying something you ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn t always go with everything in the house. ”
“The best laid schemes o Mice an Men, Gang aft agley. An lea e us nought but grief an pain, For promis d joy! (To A Mouse)”