Manly Quotes
What counts as manly shifts across this collection, from lasting friendship and a playful mention of an apron to a broader claim that traits like patience and honor belong to humanity rather than any one gender. One quote ties manly icons to the spirit of independence, while another questions whether manliness and womanliness are even the right frame. Together they offer a range of views on virtue and identity.
These manly quotes range from lighthearted humor to serious reflection on virtues like bravery and patience. For related themes on character, see Brave quotes.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.
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I suppose I'm quite manly in lots of ways, but I like to be made to feel like a woman.
American Quotes
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.
