Virile Quotes
29 quotes by 25 authors
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet.…
— Jimmy Cannon
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Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what persists…
— Elie Wiesel
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You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and…
— Courtney Love
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions…
— Alfred Jarry
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For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then…
— Umberto Eco
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Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands…
— Heinrich von Treitschke
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In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often…
— Rebecca West
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would…
— Richard Hammond
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It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their…
— Clarence Clemons
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Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It…
— David O. McKay
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Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,…
— Susan Sontag
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Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as…
— Louis Sullivan
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Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
— Heinrich Böll
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Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official…
— Jack Kerouac
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We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue…
— Elia Kazan
Who Wrote These Virile Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 29 Virile Quotes as follows: