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Men Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
- Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
- Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for…
- I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.
- Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no…
- Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust,…
- A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even…
- Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.
- I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither…
- It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all…
- Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for…
- I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what…
- In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth…
- To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have…
- There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly…
- Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only…
- My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle