Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Gail Sheehy

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

George Savile

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

George Savile

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

George Steiner

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.

Georg Simmel

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Giorgos Seferis

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

Gloria Steinem

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

Gene Tierney

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

George Villiers

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

Gianni Versace

I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.

Honor Blackman

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Henry Steele Commager

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Helen Fisher

I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.

Hugh Leonard

My mother did what many men do. She left.

Henning Mankell

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

Hanna Rosin

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Herodotus

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

H. Allen Smith

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

Hedi Slimane