Human condition Quote by Stephen King

“For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.”

— Barbara Pym

“Again the surprised expression crossed his face. He had not imagined that a woman would dare to speak so to a man. For me,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I presume that RATIONAL men will excuse me for endeavouring to persuade them to become more masculine and respectable.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“It is a strange experience for a man of pride and feeling to know that his interests are in the control of strangers who…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,”

— Sinclair Lewis

“Like men of his kind, at cross-purposes with their purpose, there could be nothing fortuitous that happened to him.”

— Mary Butts

“And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can’t even meet their own standards.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Most men are controlled by what others think of them.”

— Byron Forrest Yawn

“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to…

— Nora Roberts

“This was something he certainly had not done. I thought he might be toying, some cat-and-mouse routine, but now I think that his motives…

— Margaret Atwood