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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

I have been despised by better men than you.

My God, the man is a fascist - a fascist, I tell you.

While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.

The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

Don't worry. I'm only your escort tonight. I would offer to protect you from the drunken attentions of the other men, but I know all too well that you're quite capagble of holding your own.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.