A man. A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his…

I want a manly man who's not afraid to get down and dirty.

— Hannah Brown

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks…

— Karin Slaughter

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

— Virginia Woolf

Harrison Ford's still got it goin' on. He's very sexy in that manly-man kind of way.

— Jacqueline Obradors

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is…

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Norah Vincent

A woman wants a manly man. Nothing worse than a man that acts completely like a female. That's a turn off to a woman.

— Enhance Dreams

“The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The only work for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men…

— Ford Madox Ford

Alright, manly man,” he says. “Go prove that you’re a man.

— Jessica Sorensen

“I’ll have you know; there was NO screaming... I’m a manly man. I may have blistered the paint off the walls, in places, with…

— Terence Thirteen

Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and…

— Alexander Chee

“I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The Greek god. Or idol,…

— Jo Nesbø

“Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?” “I graduated…

— Lisa Kleypas

In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong.…

— Rick Riordan

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek…

— Henry Louis Mencken