Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.