David Niven Quotes

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.