Old men Quote by Anthony Trollope

“Except for a roll of Harding's eyes, everyone ignored me, which is the way I liked it when I had to hang around with…

— James R. Benn

“FOR WARREN G. HARDING, the summer of 1927 was not a good one, which was perhaps a little surprising since he had been dead…

— Bill Bryson

“No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.”

— Claire Delacroix

“They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no…

— Graham Greene

“The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way.”

— Sylvia Plath

“It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as…

— H.G. Wells

“Mr. Stanton never questioned his own authority to command, unless resisted. He cared nothing for the feeling of others. In fact it seemed to…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I get why no one bothers with the usual rules," ... "I was in the war, too, you know. Nothing looks or feels the…

— Paula McLain

“At one dinner he [George Smith Patton] toasted his officers’ wives with the words: ‘My, what pretty widows you’re going to make.”

— Andrew Roberts

“Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“He’d often ignored his uncle’s teachings about gentlemanly behavior, but one stricture he’d always abided by: no man worth his salt took advantage of…

— Sabrina Jeffries