Christopher Buckley Quotes

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

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

Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree).

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless!

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.