Gentleman Quotes · Page 20

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

— Herbert Hoover

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

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

— Christopher Hitchens

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A True Lady Doesn't Demand… She Thanks!!! A True gentleman Doesn't Promise... He Commits unconditionally.

— Bel Claveria Carig Martinez

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a…

— William Congreve

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

— Woodrow Wilson

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

— Anonymous

I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman…

— Jennifer Grant

(When asked about the free distribution of Akash tablet his party had promised) "Frankly, I am not the person who came up…

— Rahul Gandhi

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker,…

— Anonymous

“Jeeves, of course, is a gentleman’s gentlemen, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of…

— P.G. Wodehouse

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If anybody will ask about my ex, or exes, I will just smile. I'll never say anything negative because I think that's…

— Sajid Khan

Coming from Donald Trump, who pushed the racist birth conspiracy theory for years against Barack Obama, I think Barack Obama has been…

— David Corn

If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your…

— Lord Chesterfield

Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of…

— Benjamin Peirce

A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a…

— Jonathan Maberry

“Another gentleman ... desired to know if I was engaged, or would honour him with my hand [to dance]. So he was…

— Frances Burney

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her,…

— Charles Dickens

I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs. So they…

— Tony Bennett

Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in…

— Rush Limbaugh

Dissing your ex over the internet makes you less of a gentleman.In fact,less of a man.

— Kwanele Mketeni

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen…

— John Ruskin

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

— Charles Dickens

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

— Confucius

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman

— Judd Nelson

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

— David Zippel

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

— William Lyon Phelps

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

— P. G. Wodehouse

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

— Jack Ruby

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

— Charles Darwin

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

— Anthony Trollope

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

— Confucius

A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.

— Eva Brann

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

— Madonna Ciccone

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

— Walter Bagehot