MEN QUOTES V

quotations about men

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

BERTOLD BRECHT

The Exception and the Rule

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You men never can understand ... that, however fond a woman may be of a man, there are times when he palls upon her. You don't know how I long to be able sometimes to put on my bonnet and go out, with nobody to ask me where I am going, why I am going, how long I am going to be, and when I shall be back. You don't know how I sometimes long to order a dinner that I should like, and that the children would like, but at the sight of which you would put on your hat and be off to the Club. You don't know how much I feel inclined sometimes to invite some woman here that I like, and that I know you don't; to go and see the people that I want to see, to go to bed when I am tired, and to get up when I feel I want to get up.

JEROME KLAPKA JEROME

Three Men in a Boat

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The menfolk, they die, all right. And it's us women who walk around, like the Bible says, and mourn. The menfolk, they die, and it's over for them, but we women, we have to keep on living and try to forget what they done to us.

JAMES BALDWIN

Go Tell It on the Mountain

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They were dressed in expensive clothes and looking at them one may think that men never lie on top of them in bed, but the assumption was totally wrong. For no matter how highly placed a woman, she's submissive to a man and for some of the women, it maybe some useless men that grunted on top of them.

KUMDONG BINDUL NOSTRA

I Will Never Trust a Man


No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

JOHN DONNE

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

MARK TWAIN

Mark Twain on Common Sense

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A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

E. L. JAMES

Fifty Shades Darker

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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The Small House at Allington

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The average age at which a man marries is thirty years; the average age at which his passions, his most violent desires for genesial delight are developed, is twenty years. Now during the ten fairest years of his life, during the green season in which his beauty, his youth and his wit make him more dangerous to husbands than at any other epoch of his life, his finds himself without any means of satisfying legitimately that irresistible craving for love which burns in his whole nature. During this time, representing the sixth part of human life, we are obliged to admit that the sixth part or less of our total male population and the sixth part which is the most vigorous is placed in a position which is perpetually exhausting for them, and dangerous for society.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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Being a Man is always acting like a Man.

JOSEPH GREENE

The ComMANdments: The Official Guide Book to Man Rules


A hard man is good to find.

MAE WEST

attributed, She Always Knew How: Mae West, a Personal Biography

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This is man: a writer of books, a putter-down of words, a painter of pictures, a maker of ten thousand philosophies. He grows passionate over ideas, he hurls scorn and mockery at another's work, he finds the one way, the true way, for himself, and calls all others false--yet in the billion books upon the shelves there is not one that can tell him how to draw a single fleeting breath in peace and comfort. He makes histories of the universe, he directs the destiny of the nations, but he does not know his own history, and he cannot direct his own destiny with dignity or wisdom for ten consecutive minutes.

THOMAS WOLFE

You Can't Go Home Again

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Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

EMIL CIORAN

The Trouble with Being Born

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The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival -- even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

An Art of Living

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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden--swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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Welcome to the mystery that is men. I think it goes something like, they grow body hair, they lose all ability to tell you what they really want.

BUFFY SUMMERS

"Phases", Buffy the Vampire Slayer


They do not believe there can be tears between men. They think we are only playing a game and that we do it to shock them.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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I have been thinking, my love, and on my return,
I would like to reveal the truth of us, of myself.
I am tired of this restrictive masculine role.

CHRIS ABANI

Hands Washing Water

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We are socialized into thinking that men are like wine -- they get better with time. Women are like cheese -- they get blue veins and start to stink.

MONA CHALABI

"Why I refuse to date an older man", The Straits Times, October 22, 2017


Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

A Kiss of Shadows

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