Manly Quotes · Page 3

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

— Henry Ward Beecher

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

— Thomas Carlyle

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.

— Thomas Moore

“Just ’cause I’m the picture of manly perfection doesn’t mean I don’t have a brain.”

— Joanna Wylde

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

— Jean Genet

My rookie is manly, so manly, oh so manly his name is Derrick Bateman.

— Daniel Bryan

I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.

— Margaret Cho

Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.

— Thomas a Kempis

What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement ... and the manly and wise way is to look your…

— Frederick William Robertson

A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

— Homer

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

— Theodore Parker

There are a lot of women out there who really want a manly man, and they want his stoicism.

— Norah Vincent

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

— John Arbuthnot

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…

— H. L. Mencken

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

— Henry David Thoreau

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood,…

— Anonymous

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly…

— Neil Gaiman

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is…

— Isaac Watts

I didn't realize when I brought him back here that you'd inflict more damage." I said, once I'd finished the story. "I…

— Richelle Mead

For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing…

— Johnny Weir

A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it…

— William James

Jace?" She offered him the glass. "I am a man," he told her. "And men do not consume pink beverages. Get the…

— Cassandra Clare

I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what…

— Jess C Scott

I am a man, and men do not drink pink drinks. Now, be gone, woman, and fetch me something brown." Jace said.…

— Cassandra Clare

I really loved the story. I originally read for Walt Longmire. He is obviously a very dynamic, strong, manly man that almost…

— Bailey Chase

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational…

— James Madison

The demagogue is usually sly,a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all…

— Anonymous

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

— Benjamin Franklin

This isn't a very manly thing to do, not showing up for a fight.

— Artem Lobov

“Without the love of a woman, it is impossible to have a manly world.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

— Richelle Mead

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

— Thomas Paine

A woman's manly side is what's sexy--a woman standing strongly, fighting to be desired.

— Haider Ackermann

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

— Jules Michelet

But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.

— Geoffrey Chaucer