Quotes of: Literary-men Keyword

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

A Room of One's Own

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

The Republic

Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.

Red River

The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.

Rational Theology

The fundamental difference between the sexes is this: men make assumptions, but women rarely do.

Revival

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

Scandal

The man had one of those dark, deep voices, the kind that made men listen and women shed their clothing.

Siren's Call

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men.

Snow Dog

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Sand and Foam

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Sand and Foam

When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple.

Safe Harbor

Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren’t are inaccessible.” PHOEBE TRAEGER

Simply Irresistible

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake

Moral Essays

In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

And the Mountains Echoed

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

The Magus

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

Memoirs and Selected Letters

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

Men Explain Things to Me

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

Of Mice and Men

Juliet's Joy screeches underneath him at no one in particular. "I've to get a new horse," the Mayor mutters.

Monsters of Men

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

A Miscellany of Men