Top 100 Quotes About Manly
#1. Our society tells men they are worthless perverts who reek of male privilege while simultaneously castrating them should they act in a manly manner, and now women are upset because men are becoming more feminized? You reap what you sow.
Helen Smith
#2. To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
Thomas Carlyle
#3. A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. I sit up straighter and puff out my chest a little bit, unsure why I'm doing so even as I do it. I know when I speak I'll have dropped my voice an octave to make myself seem more manly, and when I shake he hand, my grip will be tight and strong. Stupid, I know, but I'm a guy. It's what we do.
T.J. Klune
#5. 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
Elizabeth Olsen
#6. His hand came forward, an all too manly appendage lined by callouses. If that trigger finger could produce as accurate shooting as the callous running across it suggested, she'd be tempted to be sick. She'd worked her whole life for a star and he'd gotten one within a half hour.
Anne Garboczi Evans
#7. Never mind," I said crisply. "I have my methods." I dug out my entire stock of manly courage, breathed a short prayer and let her have it right in the thorax.
P.G. Wodehouse
#8. thog no girly-orc, thog manly-orc who just happens to like figure skating!
Rich Burlew
#9. The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad
#10. In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
Alexandre Dumas
#11. At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.
Christopher Buckley
#12. Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
#13. Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.
Charles Bukowski
#14. Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
#15. I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.
Rosario Dawson
#16. I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.
Louise Mensch
#17. Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#18. Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.
Franz Von Papen
#19. A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
Juvenal
#20. I mean you're cute, but not that cute. Would Rhea really risk life in a maximum security detention unit just so that she could press herself against your manly body?
Malorie Blackman
#21. I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.
Bradley Cooper
#22. The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect ... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. Wow," she said. "That's one sweet pussy tattoo. Only you could make that look manly.
Jenni Moen
#24. The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.
Blake Shelton
#25. To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
Jane Harrison
#26. To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.
Italo Svevo
#27. I do have rough, manly, and mannish, man hands. So glad you noticed.
Anne Eliot
#28. God help me, what I wanted to do was to sweep her into my arms and clasp her to my manly bosom and pour words of soft comfort and consolation into her shell-like ear, as any red-blooded male would do.
Rosy Thornton
#29. If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. I didn't faint, I passed out in a manly way," Sespian muttered.
Lindsay Buroker
#31. According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.
Jonathan Stroud
#32. So," James asks in a sing-song voice. "What's manly Manny's place like? Does he have a Red Room of Pain?
Kristen Callihan
#33. Just 'cause I'm the picture of manly perfection doesn't mean I don't have a brain.
Joanna Wylde
#34. My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human ... a woman if you will.
Sarah Kay
#35. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. I wanted to high-five the fuck out of myself then do a victory dance. But I didn't, because, you know, manly.
L. H. Cosway
#37. He stood for twenty minutes in the bedding aisle at Target, trying to choose a manly sheet set, then picked the ones with a violet pattern, because he liked violets and who else was ever going to see his sheets, anyway?
Rainbow Rowell
#38. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Edmund Burke
#39. To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.
Benjamin Disraeli
#40. I pick up the phone and press the few buttons until I can hear my heavy, creeper breathing over the PA system. I start beat boxing into the phone, making sure I spit more than necessary. Yo, Marky Mark. Please come to your office immediately, there's a funky bunch of manly stud waiting for you.
Jay McLean
#41. These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
James Otis
#42. Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts?
Cassandra Clare
#43. Erik got to his feet, aware of her watching him, and tried not to preen at the frank admiration in her eyes. Preening was not manly.
Tiffany Snow
#44. A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,
the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#45. You know that Yeti-beard doesn't make you look more manly, right?" Dean says cheerfully as we walk out the door.
Tuck shrugs. "I was going for rugged, actually."
I snicker. "Well, it's not that, either, Babyface. You look like a mad scientist.
Elle Kennedy
#46. [All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
Edward Gibbon
#47. I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!
William Geist
#48. I'm not adorable," Wade protested. "I am manly and grizzled and have no emotions. None.
Molly Harper
#49. Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#50. A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a form of manly sport, demands a perfect singleness of intention, a homicidal austerity of mood. [The duel]
Joseph Conrad
#51. Guard glowered at me in silence, of course. It was an act. No one could resist my bluff and manly charisma. In his heart of hearts, he wanted to be friends with me. I just knew it.
Jim Butcher
#52. I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.
Kurt Vonnegut
#53. Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.
Theodore Roosevelt
#54. You've got me so whipped, I can't think of a single sarcastic thing to say."
"That makes me feel powerful and manly.
Jennifer Echols
#56. [Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.
James Joyce
#57. But he's so cute when he gets all determined and commanding, isn't he?"
...
"It's not cute, it's very manly!
M.R. Merrick
#58. Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
Dermot Mulroney
#59. If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness ... I may. If you ask nicely.
Lisa Kleypas
#60. Chasing Around Woman is not considered manly among Italins, It's a sign of weak character
Ed Falco
#61. As long as we have a youth that stands for all that is strong and manly our future is assured.
Ernst Junger
#62. To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
Jane Harrison
#63. My Morris, bless his heavy-hung manhood, was a muscular man too."
Bloody hell, is she talking about her dead husband's manly parts? His tadger?
Vonnie Davis
#64. Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.
Martin Luther
#67. Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
Saint Augustine
#68. Alright, manly man," he says. "Go prove that you're a man.
Jessica Sorensen
#69. Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.
Anne Fortier
#71. Things that rock: all the different stories people come up with - Kindle text to speech while driving - kind hearted people - oh, and the Manly Sea Eagles (Aussie rugby league)!!
G.S. Bailey
#72. My manly strength will not allow me to choose a less unyielding material," Matt said. "I have rocks for muscles. You fear my strength.
Sarah Beth Durst
#73. What manly task may I perform for you?"
"If you care for me at all, you'll slay a dragon."
"Such a simple task to prove my devotion? For you, I will gladly take up this quest. Why, by the age of ten, I had already felled my first ogre.
Betsy Schow
#74. The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#75. Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
Mason Cooley
#76. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, thought as a child, behaved as a child. But when I became a woman, I put away manly things.
Gregory Benford
#77. Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.
Pete Hamill
#78. Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
Alfred De Vigny
#79. One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor.
Steven Pinker
#80. WARNING: Supposedly, eating quiche isn't manly, and occasionally when I eat quiche, my gynecologist will make fun of me.
Jim Gaffigan
#81. Your true kingdom is just around you, and your leg is your scepter. A muscular, manly leg, one untarnished by sloth or sensuality, is a wonderful thing.
Alfred Barron
#82. All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago
Larry Hagman
#83. Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.
Carolyn Hart
#84. I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
Michael Cunningham
#85. When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Jean De La Bruyere
#86. There is something inherently manly about climbing a mountain. Though, taken literally, that would make a deep sea dive the most feminine activity on the planet.
Sloane Crosley
#87. Salvation Creek flows till date, endless tears of motherly love and manly regret.
Adhish Mazumder
#88. A man.
A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness.
Robert Thier
#89. Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.
Charles Spurgeon
#90. Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.
Chinua Achebe
#91. I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like.
Brandon Sanderson
#92. The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
Anthony Trollope
#93. Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.
Susan Faludi
#94. Henceforth an individual solace dear;
Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim
My other half: with that thy gentle hand
Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see
How beauty is excelld by manly grace.
John Milton
#95. And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.
Ben Edlund
#96. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
#97. Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. A woman's manly side is what's sexy
a woman standing strongly, fighting to be desired.
Haider Ackermann
#99. India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.
Jane Austen
