Manly Quotes · Page 4

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

— Richard D. Phillips

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be…

— Edward Young

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

— Anthony Trollope

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

— Virginia Woolf

I suppose I'm quite manly in lots of ways, but I like to be made to feel like a woman.

— Rachael Stirling

If I have to lose, although I am a woman, I want to lose in a manly way.

— Caterina Sforza

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

— Thucydides

There's a beast in every man. And it stirs when you put a sword in his hands.

— Ramandeep Singh

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up…

— Allison Pearson

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be…

— Fanny Kemble

If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may.…

— Lisa Kleypas

Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like…

— Glenn Greenwald

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on…

— William Wordsworth

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a…

— James Fenton

It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

I've come from a very masculine country to a feminine country. England was very masculine; people went from England to abroad, and…

— Quentin Crisp

All it takes for a contagious manly culture to form is for one genuine man to live out genuine manhood. It creates…

— Stephen Mansfield

The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not…

— Frank Pittman

I have one thing you don't,' he murmured against her neck, turning his head and nipping her earlobe. 'What?' His tongue teased…

— Christine Feehan

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

— Swami Vivekananda

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper…

— Orison Swett Marden

Shows his manly men always come to bed with the woman / but do not want to do with the problems of…

— Mak_786

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

— James Otis

“But he's so cute when he gets all determined and commanding, isn't he?" ... "It's not cute, it's very manly!”

— M.R. Merrick

I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy.

— Justin Bieber

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

— Jessica Sorensen

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

— Edward Young

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

— Ann Coulter

My dad is a true man. A man's man. Every manly thing he does, he does so well.

— Bobby Deol

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

— Bradley Cooper

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

— Juvenal

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

— William Wycherley

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly.

— Richelle Mead

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

— Mason Cooley

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again…

— Friedrich Nietzsche