Quotes of: Men-and-women Keyword

The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

Waldemar Januszczak

Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.

The Heretic

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before

The Histories

You have not known very many men." "I have no wish to know any others. I love this one.

His Forbidden Touch

No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free, and that the world itself is free of contempt and misuse.

The Hidden Wound

I drink coffee the way most men tie their shoes, and I’m liable to slip on a sip if I don’t follow their lead.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

I drink coffee the way other men put on their pants—only after they’ve paid the hooker.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.

Invisible Man

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

The Ides of March

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

Jane and Prudence

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Kidnapped

As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.

Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

To Kill a Mockingbird

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

Romeo and Juliet

It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Rendezvous

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

The Return of Don Quixote

THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURG PROLOGUE "The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.

The Sharpshooter 1862-1864