Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son.

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.