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Men Quotes by John Fowles
- Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
- Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
- Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man…
- I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It…
- Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.
- I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man…
- The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the…
- She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect…
- That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
- That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men…
- It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping…
- The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."…
- The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still,…
- That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
- The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.
- He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
- The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
- There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by…
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