Men Quotes

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.

We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.