Quotes about men
men audacity virtue
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. Anthony Trollope
men grace gone
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
men facts opinion
But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.
men thinking division
Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
men luxury rescue
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
men mind may
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
men hands trouble
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
men perfection might
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
men thinking vanity
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
men thinking
When men think much, they can rarely decide.
men purple luxury
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
men oxford literature
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
men mind emergencies
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
men age youth
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
men way fit
I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
men tyrants coward
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
men feelings pursuit
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
men important illness
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
men world done
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.
men voice numbers
Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
men greedy enjoyment
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 opposites giving
Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular? Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
men law tyrants
The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.
men judging important
I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury.
men past ugly
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.
men natural affected
The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
men hands feet
There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.
men speak ifs
He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
men two people
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.
men clothes long
This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.
men doe possession
The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.
men purpose moments
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
men two together
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.