Men Quotes

That Damon Matthews,” Linda spat. “You know, take one letter out of his name and it spells ‘ damn’ as in ‘damn, that kid’s a worthless sonovabitch’.

~ Kristen Ashley

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

~ Andreï Makine

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

~ Marlo Thomas

People think needing a man is weak. I believe what is truly weak is not ALLOWING ourselves to surrender to our deepest desire to have a protective, strong, caring, masculine man in our life.

~ Renee Wade

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

~ Max Born

A woman should never have a need to fear the man who holds her in his arms, neither his hands that touches her.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.

~ Amit Kalantri

We may also discover that sexual abuse helps to explain the high prevalence rates of eating disorders among women and may lend some insight into why we are starting to see more documentation of eating disorders among boys as we see the reports of sexual abuse for male children increasing. Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders.

~ Karen A. Duncan

Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and better route to the M5, or to praise their own professional achievements. So is a man does express any curiosity about a woman sitting next to him, about her feelings, about the life she is leading, she will generally tell him anything he cares to know.

~ Julian Fellowes

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction

~ Jack Donovan

By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we?

~ C.s. Lewis

He had a skull and crossbones label on him, but I drank his poison nevertheless and loved it; now I needed an antidote.

~ Genna Rulon

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

~ Rachel Kushner

I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of breath.

~ Margaret Atwood

When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a thing to be—it is also a way to be, a path to follow and a way to walk. Some try to make manhood mean everything. Others believe that it means nothing at all. Being good at being a man can’t mean everything, and it has always meant something

~ Jack Donovan

As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.

~ Robert Crais

When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they’d need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, and they still judge one another according to the demands of that role as a guardian in a gang struggling for survival against encroaching doom. Everything that is specifically about being a man—not merely a person—has to do with that role

~ Jack Donovan

He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.

~ Gillian Flynn

Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.''And men never do,' I said, 'which is why we end up with no world left to lead.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.

~ Nike Thaddeus

Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find yir limits, cause they fuckin limits eywis come in the form ay a harder man. A big. strong, stiff hard man whae can dae it for ye, whae can teach ye, show ye whaire ye stand, where yir fuckin parameters ur.

~ Irvine Welsh

Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like Second Tall Man.

~ Russell Beland

I've always found the Irish really attractive-they make wonderful writers and sexy firefighters, and if they didn't like the Red Socks they'd be perfect.

~ Julie Klausner

My friend Annabel calls it Reverse Perfectionism - if a man thinks he can't do something perfectly, he'd rather not do it at all…

~ Shelli Nt

You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.

~ Habeeb Akande

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

~ Irwin Shaw

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

~ Margaret Atwood

(On differences between men and boys) Men know what they want. Men make concrete plans. Men own alarm clocks. Men sleep on a mattress that isn't on the floor. Men tip generously. Men buy new shampoo instead of adding water to a nearly empty bottle of shampoo. Men go to the dentist. Men make reservations. Men go in for a kiss without giving you some long preamble about how they're thinking of kissing you. Men wear clothes that have never been worn by anyone else before.

~ Mindy Kaling

Generally, men prefer dating women they love over women who love them; women prefer the opposite.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

... Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.'Joanna was half serious, half laughing.It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery.'Damn it all,' I said. 'I don't mind if I do. In fact - I should like it.'A very funny expression came over Joanna's face. She got up and said dryly, as she went toward the door, 'Yes, I've known that for some time...'She left me standing, glass in hand, aghast at my new discovery.

~ Agatha Christie

Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.

~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

Men were ridiculous, in all cultures and across time.

~ Magnus Flyte

She's no angel.He's no saint.

~ Elvis Costello

She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.

~ Angela Carter

The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.

~ Margaret Way

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

~ Margaret Way

If you only attract Mr. Wrong or Ms. Crazy, evaluate the common thread in this diversity of people: YOU!

~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.

~ Elizabeth Peters

To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana