- 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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
- Greatest Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it's totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.
- Demonic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler.
- Faithfully
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love the man - so the shock of his bad behaviour is considerable, even when you know it is coming.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
- Nov 07, 2020
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020