top of page

"As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly."

Lew Wallace, American Soldier

5

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Man, Men, Wrong

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

"Genius: the superhuman in man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."

Jane Austen, British Writer

"I will praise any man that will praise me."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Man, Praise, Will

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Land, Sea

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

Explore more quotes by Lew Wallace

"Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder."

"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."

"The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history."

"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."

"As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly."

bottom of page