Man Quotes

• "Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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• "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties; in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
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• "'A was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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• "You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man, a proper man as one shall see in a summer's day, a most lovely gentlemanlike man."
  By: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at I, ii)
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• "He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?"
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "But we all are men, In our own natures frail; and capable Of our flesh, few are angels."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "The man, whom I call deserving the name, is one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than himself."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "How poor a thing is man!" alas 'tis true, I'd half forgot it when I chanced on you."
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Moral Poet
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• "Man, living, feeling man is the easy prey of the powerful present. [Ger., Der Mensch ist, der lebendig fuhlende, Der leichte Raub des macht'gen Augenblicks.]"
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans (III, 4, 54)
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• "It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other."
  By: George Augustus Henry Sala
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• "Man can be scientifically manipulated."
  By: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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• "Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other."
  By: John Ruskin
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• "But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God."
  By: John Ruskin
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• "God made man a little lower than the angels, and he has been getting a little lower ever since."
  By: Will Rogers
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• "Man is man's A, B, C. There's none that can Read God aright, unless he first spell man."
  By: Francis Quarles, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man
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