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Quotes About Masculinity

In truth what had drawn my eye was the rear view of a young man stripped to the waist and plying an adze along a beam. I could not help but admire his muscled back.
~ Kate Elliott
I ceased to find the prospect of becoming a manful-man repugnant. When manifested in football and fraternity pranks, this roughhousing seemed stupid and shallow, but now that it was for ideals that I could admire, I saw the appeal.
~ Kathleen Rooney
A needy man was not sexy; he (Woody Dewar) knew that much .
~ Ken Follett
La comida no era tan buena como la que le servían en su casa, pero la atmósfera era muy tranquila. Los sillones del saloncito para fumadores eran antiguos y cómodos, los camareros eran mayores y lentos, el papel de la pared estaba descolorido y la pintura había perdido color. Todavía tenían luz de gas. Los hombres como Walden acudían allí porque sus casas les resultaban excesivamente limpias y femeninas. —Dijo usted que casi lo habían
~ Ken Follett
Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.
~ Meda Chesney-Lind
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
~ Maurice Chevalier
I'm not really a relationship expert but ... I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.
~ Steve Harvey
To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
~ Yoko Ono
Let not women's weapons, waterdrops,Stain my man's cheeks!
~ William Shakespeare
Murderer: We are men, my liege.Macbeth: Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.
~ William Shakespeare
We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,As many other mannish cowards have.
~ William Shakespeare
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,Being so father'd and so husbanded?
~ William Shakespeare
Let still the woman takeAn elder than herself, so wears she to him,So sways she level in her husband's heart:For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,Than women's are.
~ William Shakespeare
Just what are women, exactly? Should men be classed in the same species as women? Why are they so different? Books and films may say it is better to be a woman, but I cannot believe it. I have never felt it to be true, and I never will.
~ Xinran
I instantly recognized his true masculinity in the fact that he had no cavities.
~ Y?ko Tawada
Whoever told you a man mustn't cry doesn't know what it means to be a man.... There's no shame in crying, my boy. Tears are the noblest things we have.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Spider-man: My gosh! There's a real human being under all that macho? Punisher: Yes, I'm human. It's my greatest weakness. But I don't let it stop me. And that's my greatest strength.
~ David Michelinie
lamented, "Too often sissy fellows have paraded themselves as representatives of Christianity's crowning work and characterization
~ David Murrow
Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.
~ David Sedaris
If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.
~ David Shuster
He then wrestled away the man's gun and "dick-whipped" him with it. I am unclear as to whether or not this means he struck the man in the groin or merely slapped him in the same manner in which he would slap a person with his dick.
~ David Wong
You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.
~ David Wong
Yep. Thanks for calling us, Drake. You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.
~ David Wong
He's a man's man and I like that about him.
~ Deana Martin