30,129 Quotes About Men

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant ...

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.