Gentleman Quotes

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.

As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.

Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay.

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an American.

Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.

The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining.

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. In fact, we found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.

don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics.

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that'll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.

Don't say 'No,' say 'Gilbert,' ladies and gentlemen.

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.