30,129 Quotes About Men

Men are scoundrels; they can get used to anything.

Saying this upset some men. Many among that curious gender are easy to upset, and when they are upset they don't know it. They just think you're wrong and sometimes also evil.

Until that moment, I had assumed my job--my role in the crisis--was to absorb the grief, anger, and pain building up and spilling out around Tammy and our kids. Absorb their grief so they wouldn't feel the full brunt. My job. But that night, I expressed my sorrow rather than trying to deflect or divert the hard hit Tammy had also taken. Judging from her response, it appeared more meaningful to her than the strength I'd been trying to portray.

Men often do not dare the difficult.

I knocked—not the cop knock that says, “Let me in right now, you piece of shit,” but the polite human being knock that most cops reserve for victims’ families. That’s my typical knock anyway, since I’ve always hated calling attention to myself. I wondered briefly if my knock wasn’t manly enough for Zig, but then I thought, fuck it. I was already pretending to be macho by doing the driving. I didn’t need to batter down the door.

No guy wants to come apart in front of his significant other,” Ellery snapped. “There are entire books written about the fact that men are socialized to communicate worse than twelve-year-old boys at a sock-hop.

I think all men have this instinct to retreat into oneself to a greater or lesser degree. It is the self-sufficient hero or the lonely suicide.

All men are villains. He was afraid, I realized, and I wonder now if it was because he his proclamation made him a villain too.

to the two men who yelled: “that’s a man in a dress! heyeveryone that’s a man in a dress!” while pointing at meon sixth avenue:i wanted to turn around and point back, shout: “hey everyone that’s an insecure man, that’s an insecureman! that’s an insecure man!