Men Quotes

Entering the front door, you were at once assailed by a nightmare of cheerlessness and squalor, all the sordid melancholy, at its worst, of any nest of bedrooms where only men sleep

~ ;Anthony Powell

The harder they fall, the harder they become.

~ Nancy Glynn

To own a man's heart is to own him for life.

~ Nancy Glynn

Never let a man stay the night. Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

~ Janet Fitch

The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.

~ David Joy

He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.

~ Wendy Walker

I incessantly look for water in wells dug by men, and I have drunk enough sand to prove it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

~ Thomas Hardy

Look here,” said Will. “When a man comes to me for advice about an idea, I know he doesn’twant advice. He wants me to agree with him. And if I want to keep his friendship I tell him his idea isfine and go ahead. But I like you and you’re a friend of my family, so I’m going to stick my neck out.

~ John Steinbeck

A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably

~ Kamala Suraiyya Das

Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.

~ Emma Watson

What she thinks and feels is this: This is a world of men. They come into your country, they invade your home, they kill your family. They turn your body into the battlefield — the territory of all violence — all power — all life and death. And we take it. We do. We keep taking it. We have lost track of the reasons we do not slaughter the world of men, but we do not. Yes, there are good men. She sees the face of her father. She sees how the filmmaker loves the writer. She sees the yet-unwritten life of the writer’s son. She sees her. . brother. Beautiful smear. But it is the world of men that creates pure destruction. And this is a truth we cannot bear: Since we bear them into the world, we cannot kill them. Cannot be done with them. Cannot exile them into oblivion.

~ Lidia Yuknavitch

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

~ Victor Hugo

Though Emerson is a firm believer in the equality of the female sex, he has some secret reservations, and one of them involves the car. (There is something about these machines that makes men want to pound their chests and roar like gorillas. I speak figuratively, of course.)

~ Elizabeth Peters

What I didn't like was how people talked to menow that I was no longer single; they were nicer.Men who never looked at me would start up a conversation,like I was suddenly some safer form of fire.

~ Ada Limon

All respect is earned, even self-respect.

~ Bohdi Sanders

The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting

~ Charlotte Shane

Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, worried eyes, with restless eyes. Worried because formulas do not work out; hungry for security and yet sensing its disappearance from the earth. In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by a weight of numbers of little worried men, reassure themselves that business is noble and not the curious ritualized thievery they know it is; that business men are intelligent in spite of the records of their stupidity; that they are kind and charitable in spite of the principles of sound business; that their lives are rich instead of the thin tiresome routines they know; and that a time is coming when they will not be afraid any more.

~ John Steinbeck

Your reputation is what others think of you, your character is what you truly are. Reputations can be manipulated, character can only be developed and maintained.

~ Bohdi Sanders

You don't obtain excellence by doing the bare minimum.

~ Bohdi Sanders

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

What a dire time to be attracted to men.

~ Kathie Lee Gifford

Only an honorable victory is a true victory.

~ Bohdi Sanders

Respect is both earned and lost.

~ Bohdi Sanders

The superior man responds, the inferior man reacts.

~ Bohdi Sanders

Nefret was still pouting when Emerson helped her into the carriage. Emerson did not observe the pout. He would not have observed it (men being what they are) even if something had not distracted him.

~ Elizabeth Peters

Our society seems to say that a real man needs and wants nobody.

~ Stuart Miller

After all, what is ''a man'' nowadays? Somebody who stands alone, independent of all ties.

~ Stuart Miller

If your thoughts are not right, your actions won't be right.

~ Bohdi Sanders

When men decide in their secretly dark or hungry hearts to work their own will, there is little that can stop them. They have inner weather, sometimes unpredictable.

~ Linda Hogan

Love is for real men.

~ Charles Bukowski

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.

~ George R.r. Martin

The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.

~ George R.r. Martin

How boys transitioned from bothersome pests to men who made her pulse skip a beat and her head swim in a flood of pleasurable sensations was beyond her. Perhaps this was the true definition of magic.

~ Jesikah Sundin

The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.

~ George R.r. Martin

Of course, thousands of years of traditional masculinity weren't going away without a fight. They lingered in the vestigial memories of men, occasionally challenging a decision to read the directions or wear argyle, hoping for a day when a hurtling piece of space rock will send the world back to a time before the advent of styling gels.

~ Matt K. Turner

He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.

~ Anonymous

One day you men will learnto pay attention and all the world willtremble.

~ Victoria Aveyard

We, as women, have this slight flaw. Yes, admitting it, we are flawed with a faultless memory in regards to the good and bad in men...Stored within our memory banks is every loving gesture and sugar coated word, thoughtful moments, places, arguments, indiscretions, lies all catalogued, timed and dated...The list, for us, is endless...It is not our fault...You give us so much to remember...

~ Virginia Alison

I'm going to write a book about an intelligent woman who does stupid things when it comes to men. I'll call it, My Memoirs.

~ N.m. Silber