Quotes About Author

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

Werewolves? Oh please, just plain stupid. Who wants to get it on with a man ruled by his inner dog?

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.