Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Jane Austen

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

Jane Austen

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Jane Austen

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Jane Austen

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

Jane Austen

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Jane Austen

If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

Jane Austen

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

Jane Austen

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Jane Austen

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

James Wolcott

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

Jasmine Guy

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

Janice Dickinson

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

Miley Cyrus

No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds up on Miley.' They're only talking about the one that bent over. So, obviously there's a double standard.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

Arthur Balfour

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

Arthur Balfour

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Arthur C. Clarke

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

Arthur C. Clarke

It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop

Anton Chekhov

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

Anton Chekhov

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Anton Chekhov

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

Anton Chekhov

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

Anton Chekhov

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

bell hooks

The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love.

bell hooks

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

bell hooks

Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

bell hooks

Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.

bell hooks

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

Arturo Toscanini

To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

Arundhati Roy

Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

Anthony Trollope

There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.