Louisa May Alcott Men Quotations

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

…men never forgive like women.

[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.

Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

Men are often bad, but babies never are.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...