#hon

[On marriage and permanent attachment:] Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#cleverness #deception #honesty #marriage #men

I'm not going to force you into anything you don't want. But I'm also not going to take a vow of chastity and pine away for you, or whatever the hell it is that men do in romance novels these days. I have needs. I'd rather satisfy them with you, but if you don't want me I suppose I'll just have to find someone else. Might take me a while, but I'll make do. I always have before. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#love #relationships #romance #sex #love

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#honest #men #men

Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#honesty #humanity-and-society #theives #men

The moon doesn’t have enough gravity to keep an atmosphere around it and some men doesn’t have enough honour to keep God’s angels around them! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men

The Mayor spoke proudly. 'Yes, they will light it. I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but—I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brae man will have made them a little braver.' He smiled apologetically. 'You see, it is an easy thing to do, since the end for me is the same.' Lanser said, "If you say yes, we can tell them you said no. We can tell them you begged for your life.' And Winter broke in angrily, 'They would know. You do not keep secrets. One of your men got out of hand one night and he said the flies had conquered the flypaper, and now the whole nation knows his words. They have made a song of it. The flies have conquered the flypaper. You do not keep secrets, Colonel. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#resistance #will #men

She texted Ava and Felicity and asked them to make informal advances to the town council and ask if she could establish AA meetings in Paradise. She sent the messages and hid the phone down her knickers again to avoid detection on room spot checks for contraband by Nurse Fiona. She laid back and slept soundly for the night. During the night a number of males had slipped their names and room numbers under her door for adult company if she was lonely at any stage, kind souls. It took two days but when Angelina was in the gym her phone in her knickers began to vibrate and she ran into the toilet to read her text messages the men that mattered from Paradise said yes to AA ↗

— Annette J dunlea

#honey-trap #irish-writer #men

I mean, you want the truth as you wanna hear it? I can't do that. You couldn't afford me. ↗

— Keith Moon

#keith-moon #music #rock #the-who #truth

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#honor #men

Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.” Nikolai plucked an invisible piece of dust from his sleeve. “Yes,” he said. “They just do it in better clothes. ↗

— Leigh Bardugo

#nikolai #sturmhond #men