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Quotes About Men

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.
~ Kathleen Parker
Fact #99 Men are like chocolate bonbons. The ones with the most attractive outsides have the worst fillings.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Do I have to take a knee when I ask her?" Ryan asked."No, but it's traditional." Ryan rubbed the lower half of his jaw, clearly not liking the idea. "Men used to kneel when they were being knighted," Sofia pointed out."Or beheaded," Ryan said darkly.
~ Lisa Kleypas
No, Mr. Swift's mind doesn't work that way, any more than my father's does. They're men of business. Predators. If Mr. Swift wanted me, he wouldn't stop to ask for my permission any more than a lion would stop and politely ask an antelope if he would mind being eaten for lunch.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I don't deserve her," he mumbled, without intending to. "Of course you don't. Neither do I deserve my wife. It's an unfair fact of life that the worst men end up with the best women.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Most men have inner demons," Kingston replied quietly. "God knows I do. So does a friend who's the finest and most genuinely moral man I've ever known.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Her younger sister was at ease with men in a way that Poppy could never manage. They seemed to adore Beatrix because she treated them as she did her wild creatures, gently humoring, showing patient interest.
~ Lisa Kleypas
It's easier to think of you as an adversary." Devon smiled faintly. "That puts us in an awkward situation, then, as I've decided against selling the estate." Kathleen was too astonished to reply. She couldn't believe it. Had she heard him correctly? "Eversby Priory's situation is so desperate," Devon continued, "that few men could conceivably make it worse. Of course, I'm probably one of them.
~ Lisa Kleypas
And now she's right where she wants to be, Lucy thought with a stab of fury. How easily men were taken in by women! A few tears, some sweet Southern helplessness. Oh,it must have been ridiculously easy for Raine.And here she, Lucy, was, harboring the woman under her own roof! It had the makings of a fine farce.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Merripen was more complicated than most people realized. Although he gave the impression of being less sensitive than most men, the truth was, he harbored such powerful feelings that even he wasn't able to manage them well.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Every man likes to think there's a part of his nature that remains untamed and unsubdued." "You know all about men, do you?" he asked with an edge of mockery. "Mr. Ransom, the male sex has ceased to be a mystery ever since my first course in practical anatomy, which included the dissection of a cadaver.
~ Lisa Kleypas
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Would you say that Owen is satisfied with his career?" Burns asked. Luna shrugged. She'd met few men who were satisfied. Few women as well. Was she satisfied? She wouldn't know how to answer that question. "I think he imagined a different life. But he accepted the life he had.
~ Lisa Lutz
Where did the men get the gold So extraordinarily Leaving little of me left And from what men (The men that burn in my heart) I should escape. I am ashamed. If the men turn towards me Where are the rights of my solitude?
~ Unknown
Twelve men in Forelli gold galloped past in pursuit, so fast I barely caught a glimpse. I edged out, torn between crying out to them and hesitating to interfere in a chase. But as I stepped forward, I knew that the man at the front was Marcello.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
What is it with these prophets? Almost without exception ordinary men, some of them with more vices than virtues, suddenly they were touched with fire. Is it that a man sees best the stars when he is prone?
~ Unknown
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
~ Little Richard
Sometimes my love is melancholy and I hold her head in my hands. Sometimes I recall our hair grows after death. Then, I must grab handfuls of her hair, and, I tell you, there are apples, walnuts, ships sailing, ships docking, and men taking off their boots, their hearts breaking, not knowing which they love more, the water, or their women's hair, sprouting from the head, rushing toward the feet.
~ Li-Young Lee
Of course he went straight for the psycho defense. Men always like to go straight to the psycho defense. For that reason alone we should never go psycho on a guy: just so we'll never be proving them right.
~ Liz Tuccillo
Leah's intelligence, wit, and level of coolness in a woman who looked like I used to would make her a "fun work colleague" or "a hilarious sexless friend in whom I confide about my love life." But put those same characteristics in a super hot girl and you now have men falling all over themselves to crown her Time's Person of the Year.
~ Unknown
Honorable men were keeping their word, my son, long before this Christian religion was proposed.
~ Unknown
the state is something purely mechanical — and there is no [spiritual] idea of a machine. Only what is an object of freedom may be called 'idea'. Therefore we must transcend the state! For every state must treat free men as cogs in a machine. And this is precisely what should not happen; hence the state must perish.
~ Unknown
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
~ Locke John
The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
~ Unknown