Men Quotes

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

~ Muriel Spark

What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?

~ Sylvia Plath

I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because when you saw me spitting blood you took my hand; because you wept; because you are the only human being who has ever pitied me. I am going to say a mad thing to you: I once had a little dog who looked at me with a sad look when I coughed; that is the only creature I ever loved. When he died I cried more than when my mother died. It is true that for twelve years of her life she used to beat me. Well, I loved you all at once, as much as my dog. If men knew what they can have for a tear, they would be better loved and we should be less ruinous to them.

~ Alexandre Dumas Fils

Darlin’, the last time I walked into a mall was two presidents ago.” I stared at him in shock. Then I asked, “Is that even possible?” “I got a dick and I was single so, yeah, it’s possible.

~ Kristen Ashley

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.

~ Colleen Mccullough

Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.

~ Charlaine Harris

he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolffrom a man ifhe keeps his chin upand his teeth clean.

~ Toby Barlow

As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.

~ Jennifer Crusie

Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions and somehow still be convinced of their own integrity.

~ Emily Maguire

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

~ Cecelia Ahern

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

~ Alan Moore

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

~ C.s. Lewis

And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with.

~ Nancy E. Turner

Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement, Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them, Black man cooks the white man's food but eats what is left over. Don't listen to anyone bluff you and say Black and white are brothers.

~ Es’kia Mphahlele

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

~ Khaled Hosseini

He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.

~ Darynda Jones

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

~ Pat Conroy

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

~ Helen Keller

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

~ Roman Payne

Throughout the course of the day, Bobby Tom's irritation over his artificially oiled and dirt-smeared chest and his unzipped jeans had flared into righteous indignation. They were treating him like a sex object! It was damned demeaning, that's what it was, being reduced to a set of oil pecs and a tight ass. Shit. A dozen years in the NFL, and this was what it had all come down to. Pecs and ass.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

~ Louise Erdrich

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

~ Regina King

...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly.And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in.

~ Karen Marie Moning

I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.

~ Mindy Kaling

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

~ Louisa May Alcott

I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

~ Elizabeth I

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Proper handling of a horse like this is no simple matter. He was trained to race, from birth. Not only to race, but to be the best. Once a champion, he was spoiled with attention and permissive handling. Add to that, he's an ungelded male, with a strong natural mating drive. It all adds up to a horse with a mile-wide streak of arrogance, bloody bored out of his mind. Without proper exercise and opportunities to mate, all that aggressive energy festers. He becomes moody, intractable, withdrawn, destructive.Ashworth raised an eyebrow at Bellamy. Is it just me, or is this conversation becoming uncomfortably personal?Spencer fumed. I'm not referring to myself, you ass.

~ Tessa Dare

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine,they can't play at wist,and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

~ Wilkie Collins

There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks.

~ Margaret Atwood

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

~ Emily Giffin

Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

~ John Steinbeck

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

~ Cameron Dokey

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

~ Jodi Picoult

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, THAT MOST RAREAND RAGIC OF NATURE'S MIS

~ Alan Moore

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.

~ Margaret Atwood

But, if you've decided to go out on a limb and kill one, for goodness' sake, be prepared. We all read, with dismay, the sad story of a good woman wronged in south Mississippi who took that option and made a complete mess of the entire thing. See, first she shot him. Well, she saw right off the bat that that was a mistake because then she had this enormous dead body to deal with. He was every bit as much trouble to her dead as he ever had been alive, and was getting more so all the time. So then, she made another snap decision to cut him up in pieces and dispose of him a hunk at a time. More poor planning. First, she didn't have the proper carving utensils on hand and hacking him up proved to be just a major chore, plus it made just this colossal mess on her off-white shag living room carpet. It's getting to be like the Cat in the Hat now, only Thing Two ain't showing up to help with the clean-up. She finally gets him into portable-size portions, and wouldn't you know it? Cheap trash bags. Can anything else possible go wrong for this poor woman? So, the lesson here is obvious--for want of a small chain saw, a roll of Visqueen and some genuine Hefty bags, she is in Parchman Penitentiary today instead of New Orleans, where she'd planned to go with her new boyfriend. Preparation is everything.

~ Jill Conner Browne