Manly Quotes · Page 3

More childish valorous than manly wise.

— Christopher Marlowe

I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.

— Rita Ora

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

— Robert E. Lee

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Henry David Thoreau

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

— Elizabeth Olsen

“I do have rough, manly, and mannish, man hands. So glad you noticed.”

— Anne Eliot

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Homer

Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger.…

— Anne Fortier

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in…

— Orestes Brownson

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the…

— Jane Harrison

Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour…

— Theodore Roosevelt

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and…

— Frederick William Robertson

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the…

— James Monroe

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much…

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

— William James

Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after…

— Steve Almond

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Isaac Watts

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

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

— Thomas Moore

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

— Jean Genet

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Daniel Bryan

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

— William Henry Harrison

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

— M.F. Moonzajer

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

— James Otis

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

— Artem Lobov

Shane - "Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed.

— Rachel Caine

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

— Haider Ackermann

“Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage.”

— Richard D. Phillips