top of page
Man Quotes


"The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it."


"Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so."


"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do."



"I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it."


"Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men."


"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."


"There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know."



"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."


"Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism."


"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners."


"Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell."


"There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion."


"If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today."


"Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk."


"The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them."


"Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements."


"Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball."


"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."



"But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!"


"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."


"I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance."


"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."


"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."



"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."


"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."


"Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it."



"I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets."


"A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others."
bottom of page

