Manly Quotes - Page 4

• Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

  William E. Gladstone

  Hurt, Character, Men

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• And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.

  Ben Edlund

  Facts, Littles, Way

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• Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Trials, Demand

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• There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Decision, Firmness

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

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• What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.

  Samuel Adams

  Kings, Struggle, Power

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• Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Marriage, Strong, Humble

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• The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Scholar, Thinker

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.26

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• To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

  Italo Svevo

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

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• If I have to lose, although I am a woman, I want to lose in a manly way.

  Caterina Sforza

  Want, Way, Ifs

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• I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

  Rosario Dawson

  People, Lines, Pimples

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• Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.

  Theodore Parker

  Jesus, Prayer, Believe

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• Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Growing Up, Nice, Actors

  "Dermot Mulroney Interview INHALE; Plus Updates on EVERYBODY LOVES WHALES and LOVE, WEDDING, MARRIAGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2010.

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• All it takes for a contagious manly culture to form is for one genuine man to live out genuine manhood. It creates a model, something for other men to feed upon and pattern themselves after. It also gives other genuine men a vital connection that sustains and extends who they are.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Men, Giving, Connections

  Stephen Mansfield (2013). “Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

  Edmund Burke

  Nurse, Evil, Grace

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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• Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her.

  Richard Bacon

  Men, Half, Caprice

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• I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games.

  Hal Porter

  Sports, Running, Fun

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• Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live in a manly way, die a manly death. To be thus a man was to give constant proof of one's manliness-to be more a man today than yesterday, more a man tomorrow than today. To be a man was to forge ever upward toward the peak of manhood, there to die amid the white snows of that peak.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, White, Yesterday

  Yukio Mishima (2010). “Runaway Horses”, p.344, Random House

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• Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness.

  James Madison

  Rights, Names, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I love a man who knows how to walk. I do like a gentleman, a man who opens the door and a man who walks on the proper side of the street with you. There’s something safe about it; he’s protecting you. That’s a really nice quality. You don’t see it as often anymore. I pay attention to those things. I know it sounds silly, but I love that. I’m fortunate to say that I have a good guy. Oh, and he has to have great hands. There’s a lot I find sexy in a man, but strong, manly hands are very important.

  Lana Parrilla

  Sexy, Strong, Nice

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• Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Evil, May

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• Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

  Saint Augustine

  Scary, Mind, Height

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• It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Kindness, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.258, Macmillan

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• May I mention earrings and rings placed in other parts of the body. These are not manly. They are not attractive. You young men look better without them, and I believe you will feel better without them. As for the young women, you do not need to drape rings up and down your ears. One modest pair of earrings is sufficient.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Feel Better, Men

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stress, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

  Bradley Cooper

  Children, Years, Felt

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