Gentleman Quotes

Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.

We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.

A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

A gentleman can live through anything.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

I do not accept drinks from disapproving gentlemen.

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these sharp pencils, ideal for stabbing, and he's been a perfect gentleman.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well." "If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer.

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

My brother is not a girl, he is a gentleman.

Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.

I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.