“I know it sounds foolishly old fashioned, but I'm stuck with this idea that there's something dignified and noble about facing your… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
He was a wonderful gentleman, elegant, with great humility. All the wonderful things you can say about a person, you have to… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake.… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
I'd like to name my kid a whole phrase. You know, something like Ladies and Gentlemen. That'll be a cool name for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I was very much a part of the civil rights era, so, of course, my fantasy was to marry some outstanding black… — Roxie Roker Copy Share Image
“My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You have six math Ph.D. Caucasian gentlemen from the Northeast of the country, great. You put one more in the mix, you… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in… — David Niven Copy Share Image
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“He had waited until I had my door open, then driven away. The perfect gentleman. Sort of like Dracula just before he… — Toni Andrews Copy Share Image
Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“I was a gentleman over everything. An ass-appreciating gentleman. We are the finest kind of man. I should open my own ass-appreciating… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
