To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Sybil, bk.1, ch.5.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supportshiskingon loyal principles and cuts off hishead on republican principles.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The Man of Destiny.

For my part, I will have only those glorious manly pleasures of being very drunk and very slovenly.

-Wycherley,William
  The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.