Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it. — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Let there be no steps backward. A thought as to the manliness of persevering, of the want of manliness in yielding to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“We fight it down, and we live it down, or we bear it bravely well, But the best men die of a… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
There's nobody better to tell you who's a man and who isn't than a woman. Women will spot manliness, or lack of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
“If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Beer: All real men drink a specific brand of cheap beer. While I was growing up, my stepfather, who was the manliness… — Forrest Griffin Copy Share Image
Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Heterosexual women who've had long-term relationships see their man fall apart. They go, "I'm giving him my whole life - I'm giving… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean… — Plato Copy Share Image
The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between… — Waller R Newell Copy Share Image
If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“In addition to the picture of women as evil is the impossible cultural model of manliness that boys are expected to emulate.… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“that? Masculinity is and was a broad category that encompassed many forms of behaviour; the manliness of these particular men was inflected… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“...it was not considered right for a man not to drink, although drink was a dangerous thing. On the contrary, not to… — Eoghan Odinsson Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone;… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Penicillin and plastic bags help a lot, fridges and hot water make manliness more comfortable and Tom Ford's fragrance range makes it… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image