Quotes About Individuality

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should've been illegal.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

Men with shaved heads are always better. Just ask my wife.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?

I am not in the roll of common men.

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

In real life there is no such person as the average man.

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.