Gentleman Quotes
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.
It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.
It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.
You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.
Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.
Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.
Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.
Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, came Habraham, Moyses, Aron and the profettys; and also the kyng of the right line of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne.
It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
