Quotes About Men

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.