Manly Quotes

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Ultimate vulnerability. That’s manly.”

— Cameron Conaway

Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Manly deeds, womanly hands.”

— John Hodgman

Brown is a manly color

— Cassandra Clare

More childish valorous than manly wise.

— Christopher Marlowe

A woman's honor rests on manly love.

— Esaias Tegner

A sound mind in a manly body.

— Homer

I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.

— Mike D

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man does not shout his manly might, he acts.

— Samuel Kermis

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

— Louise Mensch

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

— Thomas Carlyle

“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

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

— James Monroe

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

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

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

“You could say I’m so manly I don’t even allow manly stereotypes to influence my actions”

— Ben Mitchell

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

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

— Stephen Mansfield

Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign…

— Adam Hamilton

There was something that was very manly about having the strength and having the courage to sing about love and romance. And…

— Michael Buble

To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly…

— Elisabeth Elliot

I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy…

— Willa Cather

Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light…

— Robin Williams

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

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

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 was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure…

— Germaine Greer

If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a…

— James Madison

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

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