Armchairs Quote by V. S. Pritchett Download Open image “Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.” — V. S. Pritchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Armchairs Masculinity Mausoleum Men
Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to...… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think there's been this whole image of masculinity that's been out in society - of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men - like, this… — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
A lot of fields are dominated by men and of course the funeral business is no different, it's saturated with men so you don't… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle… — Ann Oakley Copy Share Image
“Men cannot be men—much less good or heroic men—unless their actions have meaningful consequences to people they truly care about. Strength requires an opposing… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
When men come home, it is more about being part of the family, being with the children, spending more time with the children, being… — Penny Lancaster Copy Share Image
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Here, as in so many other cases, however, it turns out that a very commonsensical idea looks far less attractive when one examines some… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
The kind of approach I take is different from much of experimental philosophy. Although the experimental philosophers and I are certainly in agreement about… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British… — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on. — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall… — Laura Lee Copy Share Image
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image