Men Quotes

Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with.

~ Irma Joubert

He speaks in a way that leaves no room for argument, on the edge of condescension and caring. It's a trick all men of the South have to learn before they're accepted as one of the good ol' boys.

~ Natalie C. Parker

Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man’s a coward.

~ Mark Twain

The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.

~ David Burr Gerrard

All men have One Master, the Maker.

~ Lailah Gifty

Never fall for a man whose chief antagonist is himself, whose chief conversational partner is the man in the mirror when he shaves.

~ Stacia Pelletier

Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong sexual undercurrents. A vampire's hunger is simply a metaphor for a man's lust.

~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

~ Cameron Dokey

Emma has just rung and sarcastically asked me if I was ever planning on asking her out again. After fighting back my initial reaction to answer ‘only if you’re going to put out this time,’ I told her that, in these days of equality, it was her turn to ask me. Which, amazingly enough, she did.

~ Dougie Brimson

When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth — that men are only equal — can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.

~ Marilyn French

The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, it has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

~ Valerie Solanas

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying

~ Sebastian Barry

The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical and moral evils that torment mankind, as well as of the vices and follies that degrade and destroy women; yet, at school, boys infallibly lose that decent bashfulness, which might have ripened into modesty at home.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm, crouch, square off, meet an attack with something like resistance, even if it kills them.

~ Ben Marcus

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.”-Caroline to Ursual.

~ Agatha Christie

A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.

~ Agatha Christie

My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to the ground with a bullet in his stomach and I look briefly and walk on. I don't even need to shrug. I simply don't care. What he was, as a person, I mean, what his shames and yearnings were, simply don't matter.

~ Marilyn French

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

~ Jane Austen

A woman's confidence separates the men from the boys.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

~ Marilyn French

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.

~ Marilyn Monroe

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can

~ Gaius Julius Caesar

That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.

~ David Burr Gerrard

He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.

~ Eoin Colfer

No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male.

~ Jack Donovan

If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.

~ Jack Donovan

The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.

~ Jack Donovan

There are no gods, only men.

~ David Vann

I am tired of men hurting women and each other and themselves.

~ Carlos Andrés Gómez

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

~ Ouida

And only men could have invented the idea of a king.

~ David Vann

I am tired of men dying because they feel alone, feeling like they are destined for prison or monotony or gender role-playing or anything less than their most divine of dreams.

~ Carlos Andrés Gómez

It is the prerogative of women to make men wait.

~ C.s. Woolley

After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then.

~ Margaret Atwood

You should have seen him,” she said. “A real ladies’ man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet.

~ Michelle Tea

Call it arrogance or male chauvinism, the male ego just doesn’t allow a woman to participate in key issues in family. Men seldom realize that it’s the housewife who has the most difficult job in the world: waking up early, preparing breakfast, getting the children ready for school, preparing lunch, cleaning up the mess at home and so much more. Even before they can some rest, the doorbell would ring and the children are back from school. Then, the routine again, and by the end of the day, they were tired. Women in the family are the last to sleep and the first to wake up. Sometimes, even during a crisis in the family or when there is a dispute, it’s the lady of the house that stands rock solid to calm things down and face challenges head on.

~ Jagdish Joghee

A man in love is a sorry spectacle.

~ Agatha Christie