Men Quotes
Little here is prose, and the list is short. Shakespeare leads, then Byron, Pope, Dryden and Josiah Gilbert Holland. Byron’s lines are the best-sourced: sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die in moulding Sheridan (1816), and the Manfred passage (1817) on men who name themselves sovereigns of the earth yet are half dust, half deity.
The one flagged entry is “The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man,” credited to Madame de Staël and marked disputed.
Man's wretched state,
That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
A king may spille, a king may save;
A king may make of lorde a knave;
And of a knave a lorde also.
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.
Men that make
Envy and crooked malice nourishment,
Dare bite the best.