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Quotes About Men

I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.
~ Helen Mirren
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
~ Henry Fielding
Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
~ Honore de Balzac
This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.
~ Janet Morris
Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.
~ Jessica Valenti
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
~ John Harington
But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.
~ John Thorn
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
~ Joseph Heller
I have a bad habit of playing little emotional games with men. When they date me it's cool in the beginning, we do our thing in the first month, and then I send them on a rollercoaster ride to hell.
~ JWoww
The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.
~ Karl Mannheim
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
~ Karl Marx
Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.
~ Lillian Smith
Men are often bad, but babies never are.
~ Louisa May Alcott
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.
~ Michael Ayrton
A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.
~ Newton D. Baker
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.
~ Pierre de Marivaux
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
~ Pindar
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
~ Plato
Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'
~ Prince Philip