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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I'm concerned, that part is Greg's for life. I've had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I've always refused.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one knows when the man up above wants to call your name.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew Randy right from day one when he started wrestling. I helped him put together that image of the Macho Man. He had a way about him. He grabbed your attention through his voice. That allowed him to present himself as a type of a character.
- Nov 07, 2020
I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020