Quotes About Men

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

Girls are always so keen to review [3525] Whether one's virtuous, and sticks to the rules. They think if a man can be led, he'll follow too.

Some few large men sat in the front parlors (...), Uncles almost certainly, trying their new cigars, holding them out judiciously at arms' length, returning them to their mouths, coughing, then holding them out again as though waiting for the explosion;

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

Nature, with all her cruelty, comes nearer to us than do these crowds of men.

Men, declaring that she inspires them to it, move joyfully over the surface, having the most delightful meetings with other men, happy, not because they are masculine, but because they are alive.

Sir Christopher WrenSaid "I am going to dine with some men.If anybody callsSay I am designing St. Paul's."

and nothing quite so least as truth—i say though hate were why men breathe—because my father lived his soullove is the whole and more than all

But maybe I could be the wacky, unpredictable girl; the kind who always fascinates more conservative men in the movies.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

But Louis XIV had clever ministers, mainly men of humble origin chosen for their outstanding ability.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.

All men are equal - all men, that is, who possess umbrellas.

Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil.

How fortunate that it was an 'unconventional' party, where formalities are ruled out! On this basis Aziz found the English ladies easy to talk to, he treated them like men. Beauty would have troubled him, but Mrs Moore was so old and Miss Quested so plain that he was spared this anxiety.

Those funny old days, when men went for change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms! And

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form...

It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.

M]en were not gods after all, but as human and clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help... the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence.

I wish that Cecil had not turned so cynical about women. He has, for the second time, quite altered. Why will men have theories about women? I haven't any about men.

Uma noite, pouco antes das dez horas, escapou-se para Trinity e aguardou no Grande Claustro que os portões se fechassem atrás dele. (...) Estava no meio de homens de Trinity - todos de imensa inteligência e cultura. O grupo de Maurice gozava com Trinity, mas não podiam ignorar o seu esplendor arrogante, ou negar a superioridade que mal se dá ao trabalho de se afirmar. ----------------------------------------------------- P.38, MAURICE, E.M. FORSTER

Helen, what a memory you have for some things! You're perfectly right. It's a room that men have spoilt through trying to make it nice for women. Men don't know what we want— " "And never will." "I don't agree. In two thousand years they'll know.