Top 100 Man Would Quotes
#1. Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.19
Jill Lepore
#2. It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.
Ruth Harrison
#3. A new adaptation of Jane Eyre came out every year, and every year it was exactly the same. An unknown actress would play Jane, and she was usually prettier than she should have been. A very handsome, very brooding, very 'ooh-la-la' man would play Rochester, and Judi Dench would play everyone else.
Catherine Lowell
#4. No real man would take something as sweet as his penis and turn it into a club.
Mary Mackey
#5. Cecily: "Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare"
Algernon: "They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in."
Cecily: "Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
Oscar Wilde
#6. A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
Edmund Burke
#7. No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
William Hazlitt
#8. The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. Abandoned lovers were often lured into the false embrace of faithless mistresses and this caused the Minister the gravest concern for he feared that one day a man would impregnate an illusion and then a generation of half-breed ghosts would befoul the city
Angela Carter
#10. Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.
Brandon Sanderson
#11. My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#12. Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.
Jerome Charyn
#13. Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.
Mona Simpson
#14. It doesn't matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that to a girl, especially one that's drunk.
Krista Ritchie
#15. In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.
Scott Lynch
#16. What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
Terry Pratchett
#17. No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.
[No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]
George Herbert
#18. Death takes what man would keep," said the butterfly, "and leaves what man would lose. Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks. I warm my hands before the fire of life and get four-way relief.
Peter S. Beagle
#19. Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me," he said, "then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.
Isaac Asimov
#20. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
#21. There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
Tahir Shah
#22. A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point ... and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#23. Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Robert Browning
#24. Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
#25. But Theon Greyjoy found himself wondering why any man would climb the snow-slick steps to the battlements in the black of night just to take a piss.
George R R Martin
#26. Toni, I barely know you, but I canna see anything remotely unworthy about you. any man would be blessed and honored to receive yer love. (Ian MacPhie)
Kerrelyn Sparks
#27. I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.
Walter Scott
#28. It was an ugly face, pale, coarse, and cruel, but Ged feared no man, though he might fear where such a man would guide him.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#29. The Book of Mormon is the most correct of any book on this Earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than any other book.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#30. He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.
Rachel Joyce
#31. Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley
#32. It is one of the poorest of human weaknesses that a man would be ashamed of saying he has done wrong instead of so ashamed of having done wrong that he cannot rest till he has said so. For the shame cleaves fast until the confession removes it.
George MacDonald
#33. To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.
George MacDonald
#34. I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!
Dorothy Stratten
#35. Mace growled and wondered how much prison time a man would do for tossing his sister into the East River.
Shelly Laurenston
#36. If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
Ziggy Marley
#37. A normal man would be more solicitous if he got a pretty young woman in a private cabin with him.
Lindsay Buroker
#38. In order to invent heaven and hell a man would need to know nothing except the human body
Jose Saramago
#39. Women say ... that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world ... I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.
Robertson Davies
#40. So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#42. Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant H. McGill
#43. A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#44. For a man would know the necessary choices that have to be made when one is facing one's oblivion.
Patrick Ness
#45. Since in the world you imagines, a world without power and money, with no prohibitions, with no pain or death, each man would be God, and God therefore would not be possible. He would be a lie, because His attributes would be those of every man, woman and child: grace, immortality and supreme good.
Carlos Fuentes
#46. A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.
Timothy Egan
#47. But I will always own your heart. And this man would be second to me in your heart.
Alessandra Torre
#48. You'd be surprised what my Asha'man would dare.
Robert Jordan
#49. Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke
#50. Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
Dean Koontz
#51. I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions.
Wilbur Wright
#52. If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared ... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.
Michel Foucault
#53. She is not in my books, and what kind of man would choose words that are already written over what might still be?
Erika Swyler
#54. Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.
Ilona Andrews
#55. They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
Henry Ward Beecher
#56. A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
Jean Rostand
#57. What man would have courage enough to believe he could win you? Bosque laughed. You exude power. Men are small creatures, easily cowed by those who challenge their sense of self-importance.
Andrea Cremer
#58. A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#59. Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.
William Lane Craig
#60. The husband beats his wife," she responded. "The neighbors don't care, and even if they complained, the man would not change.
Felix Abt
#61. From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
Chris Priestley
#62. Without a path to redemption, a man would watch the world burn. With a measure of hope, the same man ...
Well. He would not be the same man, would he?
Zachary Jernigan
#63. This man would not kiss me as I like to be kissed but as he does. His way is too hard, demanding, dangerous. His way is not love. It is passion and it burns. Incinerates.
Karen Marie Moning
#64. A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
Allan Pease
#65. Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.
Charles Tennyson Turner
#66. What kind of a man would turn his daughter into an outboard motor?
Kurt Vonnegut
#67. everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose, must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment".
Earl Nightingale
#68. If man would help some of us a little more, God would forgive us all the sooner perhaps.' But
Charles Dickens
#69. Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life! And this, If God did not exist, man would
Sue Monk Kidd
#70. That's one thing I like about you, Sarah Booth. You put your own personal style on a room. I'd call this boudoir pigsty. Yes sir, any man would find this an enticin' little love nest, if he didn't break his neck tryin' to get to the bed.
Carolyn Haines
#71. Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. A man would know the women he was meant to be with because she made him weak. Till he claimed her and she made him strong.
Kresley Cole
#73. Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado
#74. Without memory, he thought, man would be invincible
Simon Van Booy
#75. They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
Charles Dickens
#76. Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
Benjamin Whichcote
#77. If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#78. For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a shortlived state of autosuggestion.
Love was a state which a wise man would prudently avoid.
Robert Sheckley
#79. My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?
Anthony Jeselnik
#80. In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.
Frank Abagnale
#82. I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"
Romola Garai
#83. I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#84. A woman's heart should be so lost in the remembrance of Allah, that a man would have to seek him first in order to find her.
Khalid Yasin
#85. An honorable man would have given her up before she fell in love, choosing a small hurt over a bigger one later. But I wasn't that honorable. I wanted her more than I'd wanted anything in a long time, and I would have her until she couldn't bear it any longer.
C.D. Reiss
#86. Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke
#87. You know, a sane man would be wetting his pants.. Good thing he was crazy as hell.
-Caillen's thoughts.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#88. When God made Man he made no mistakes, He knew man would make those for himself".
~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#89. Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome.
Clifford D. Simak
#90. Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
Henry David Thoreau
#91. Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.
Joseph Addison
#92. Oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
Jules Verne
#93. Wars fought over a face like this. A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it, poison his brother to possess a face like this. My
Kristen Ashley
#94. Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it, this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What do do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
Emil Cioran
#95. How very learned many a man would be if he knew everything that was in his own books! The
Arthur Schopenhauer
#96. A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
Mahatma Gandhi
#97. The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.
Lewis Sperry Chafer
#98. Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.
Brenda Jackson
#99. What sort of man would you choose for yourself, Liadan?, he asked me.
One who is trustworthy, and true to himself, I answered straightaway. One who speaks his mind without fear. One who can be a friend as well as a husband. I would be contented with that.
Juliet Marillier
#100. A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.
Mary Shelley
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
