Gentleman Quotes · Page 16

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

— Emily Dickinson

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

— Len Goodman

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

— Robert E. Lee

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

“He turned out the lamp and left the room, his body in agony. Sometimes, it was absolute hell to be a gentleman.”

— Laura Lee Guhrke

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.

— Zengzi

If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.

— Ian Gillan

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

— Sandra Fluke

I know that asshole you were with in college --” “Can we leave that asshole out of it?” Please, gentlemen, one asshole…

— Josh Lanyon

“Call me old fashioned, but I kind of enjoy the so-called 'walk of shame.' It's really more a 'walk of pride because…

— Abigail Barnette

But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall…

— Elijah Parish Lovejoy

So far China has won the most gold medals, ladies and gentlemen. The Chinese athletes can't wait to get home and show…

— Conan O'Brien

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…

— Frank Miller

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid…

— Harper Lee

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share…

— Carol Leifer

All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens…

— John Bingham

Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans…

— Karel Capek

If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and…

— Tony Blair

My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine…

— Sean Mackin

The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a…

— Isaac Asimov

We are two travelers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog-come here, you scamp! Jump for the gentleman-mind your eye! Over the table,-look…

— John Townsend Trowbridge

So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

— Herbert Hoover

Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has LEFT the building! (I'm the building)

— Olivia Wilde

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

— J. P. Morgan

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

— Victor Hugo

How would I treat a girl if she was my girlfriend? I'm a really affectionate person and I like being a gentleman.

— Omarion

Trust is a big deal in life, and I'm very old-school about that stuff.

— Carlos Beruff

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

— Winston Churchill

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

— William Shakespeare

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

— Anonymous

There are so many emoticons these days, I'm kind of old fashioned.

— Ashley Tisdale

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

— Mark Twain

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

— George Axelrod

Acknowledge yourself, man up along age and then decide to be a gentleman or an another asshole.

— Daniyal Butt

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter…

— Vin Diesel

A lot of sports cars are just not designed for the larger gentleman.

— Chris Harris

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

— Tom Waits