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Manly Quotes

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Tom Hubbard, Robert Louis Stevenson (1995). “Seeking Mr. Hyde: Studies in Robert Louis Stevenson, Symbolism, Myth, and the Pre-modern”

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

More childish valorous than manly wise.

Christopher Marlowe, David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmussen (1998). “Doctor Faustus and Other Plays”, p.110, Oxford University Press, USA

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.221

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.157, Crown Forum

Brown is a manly color

Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1372, Simon and Schuster

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

Thomas Paine (1995). “Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)”, p.288, Library of America

I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

"Louise Mensch: Chick-lit queen who shines at Westminster" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2011.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1710, e-artnow

But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.

Geoffrey Chaucer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

A woman's honor rests on manly love.

Esaias Tegnér (1876). “Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance”, p.78

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

1983 Refrain from Or Shall We Die, an oratorio.

Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best.

George Gascoigne, John W. Cunliffe (2012). “The Complete Works of George Gascoigne: Volume 1, The Posies”, p.44, Cambridge University Press