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Quotes About Men

Let the vicars retire. Men do not need the Church In the place where they work, but where they spend their Sundays.
~ T.S. Eliot
Bastard was a term of affection between us, as it usually is in the sub-continent between men who share a Catholic missionary-school education.
~ Tabish Khair
Yes, there were thousands of women like them. Yes, they were Muslims. No, they did not think Allah would punish them. No, she was not afraid of what Daesh might do. Yes, that is what she would call them—Daesh—whether they liked it or not. Wasn't she afraid of the violence men can do to woman? Yes, she was—where is the woman who isn't—but what sort of man, who takes the name of God, would even speak of such things?
~ Tabish Khair
Wasn't she afraid of the violence men can do to woman? Yes, she was—where is the woman who isn't—but what sort of man, who takes the name of God, would even speak of such things?
~ Tabish Khair
Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises? Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place. And yet the wars that were fought over such things, the hearts broken and the lands ruined..!
~ Tad Williams
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
~ Tad Williams
If you are going to without trust. men tasks to do, then once they have proved themselves, you should let them get on without you standing over them. There is no point in giving responsibility wifh
~ Tad Williams
Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: 'what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.
~ Tad Williams
What is it you want, fairy woman?" he asked at last. "I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish." Ayaminu
~ Tad Williams
As I saw it, a little threatening was a good thing. It kept the men on their toes.
~ Tahir Shah
Most violence committed against women is perpetuated by men. I once read a quote that the thing a man fears most from a woman is that she'll laugh at him, and the thing a woman most fears from a man is that he'll kill her.
~ Tami Hoag
She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.
~ Tamora Pierce
I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone. -Myles of Olau
~ Tamora Pierce
Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?
~ Tamora Pierce
Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor and as Zhirem's cup was sure, so was his joylessness… to die is a fear, but to live is a fear, also.
~ Tanith Lee
This sight was terrible, more terrible than words can convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.
~ Tanith Lee
Women could be quite crafty, he knew that much. His father said it often. Smarter than men, too, most of the time. You had to know your way around if you wanted to fall in love with a woman.
~ Ted Dekker
Another world. Another life. And for me it was much longer than five measly years. A world with more darkness and less hope than I care to remember. Bleak and starless, full of diseased men. It's inside them there. In some ways it makes it worse. You don't know who's diseased and who isn't. You don't know when you've become a Scab.
~ Ted Dekker
Los hombres son criaturas con espíritu de contradicción, sus cabezas y sus corazones nunca guardan concordancia. Y como bien saben todas las mujeres, sus actos normalmente están regidos por otro aspecto completamente diferente.
~ Julia Quinn
that word. Charming. Women should steer clear of men who charm them. If you're charmed, then you're under some kind of spell, and women need to stay sharp. Real life isn't a dream.
~ Julianne MacLean
It's so lovely that even in prison, men who aren't touchy-feely have to be stopped from beating up rapists -- not just child molesters, but rapists of grown women. It's a shame that educated middle-class leftwing men can't take feminism on board so effectively.
~ Julie Burchill
I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.
~ Julie Burchill
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
~ Julie Burchill
Get to your dusting, slave-girl. We vacationing men will take over the sleuthing!
~ Julie Campbell