Gentleman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
-- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson -
Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.
-- Albert Rosenfeld -
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
-- Aldous Huxley -
A true gentleman never leaves his lady.
-- Alessandro Del Piero -
Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.
-- Alex Salmond -
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
-- Ambrose -
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".
-- Ambrose Bierce -
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.
-- Andrew Sean Greer -
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.
-- Anita Loos -
Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
-- Anita Loos -
It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
-- Anita Loos -
It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.
-- Anna Godbersen -
A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
-- Anna Howard Shaw -
The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
-- Anna Kendrick -
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
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.
-- Anna Quindlen -
You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And you're such a gentleman.""Not with you, love. But I'm trying.
-- Anne Stuart -
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
-- Anthony Trollope -
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
-- Anthony Trollope -
The gentleman will sit! The gentleman is correct in sitting!
-- Anthony Weiner -
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.
-- Athenaeus -
Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.
-- August Kekule -
I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.
-- Aziz Ansari -
The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
-- Barbara Mertz -
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
-- Beatrix Potter -
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.
-- Ben Cross -
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.
-- Benjamin Guggenheim -
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it is the truth.
-- Benjamin Peirce -
Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source of force, namely will. How then can we help regarding the forces we see in nature as due to the will of some omnipresent, omnipotent being? Gentlemen, there must be a GOD.
-- Benjamin Peirce -
The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.
-- Bertrice Small -
The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!
-- Bob Dylan -
Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
-- Bob Riley -
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
-- Brander Matthews -
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
-- Brian McKnight -
A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch, which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.
-- Brian McKnight -
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.
-- C. S. Lewis -
He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.
-- Caitlin Kittredge -
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
-- Caleb Cushing -
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
-- Caleb Cushing -
A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I have a fetish for damsels in distress.†“Don’t be sexist.†“Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.
-- Cassandra Clare -
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ...
-- Catherine the Great -
In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.
-- Charles Darwin -
My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.
-- Charles Dickens -
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
-- Charles Dickens -
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.
-- Charles Dickens -
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.
-- Charles Perrault -
The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
-- Charles Tupper -
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
-- Charles William Eliot -
I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searches, and to set bounds to other Mens Industry; as if they knew the Marks that God has placed to Knowledge...
-- Christiaan Huygens -
Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
-- Christina Stead -
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.
-- Christopher Parker -
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
-- Claude Debussy -
Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle
-- Claudio Ranieri -
You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
-- Clement Attlee -
I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
-- Clement Attlee -
Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
-- Cole Porter -
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.
-- Colin Mochrie -
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen
-- Compton Mackenzie -
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
-- Confucius -
A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.
-- Confucius -
If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.
-- Confucius -
Gentleman, God created you with the heart of a warrior. Until there’s something you’re willing to die for, you can’t truly live.
-- Craig Groeschel -
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
-- Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood -
'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.'
-- Cyrano de Bergerac -
The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.
-- D. A. Carson -
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.
-- Daisy Ashford -
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.
-- David Copperfield -
Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.
-- David Foster -
Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.
-- David Letterman -
One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."
-- David Lloyd George -
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
-- David Rockefeller -
I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
-- David Walliams -
The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining.
-- David Zippel -
I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman.
-- Dean Martin -
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.
-- Debra Winger -
The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.
-- Denis Healey -
My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
-- Denis Leary
