Baseness Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one…

— George Henry Lewes

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but…

— Anonymous

Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with…

— Jean Toomer

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...

— Anonymous

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

— Mark Twain

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the…

— Charles Spurgeon

A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is…

— Rosa Campbell Praed

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others…

— Criss Jami

Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope,…

— Jonathan Edwards

If a person is cold and rigid, he feels within himself as if he were in a grave. He is not living, he cannot…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and en-kindled, but…

— Sarah

Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has…

— Ludwig von Mises