A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform… — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. You're such a lady to me.Losing you will feel… — Crosby Kwaw Copy Share Image
“If I weren’t a gentleman, I would pound you into the ground right now.” He unfisted his hands in order to dismiss… — Nicole Castro Copy Share Image
“Actually to discover that Mr. Knightley is a gentleman! I doubt whether he will return the compliment, and discover her to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long… — William Whipple Copy Share Image
In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
“Like this, Rook.” Ford’s soft words vibrate into me. “I like you. I’d like to show you how much, actually. I’m being… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“Be that as it may, a gentleman doesn’t continue to press his attentions on a lady who can’t return them.” “Then, as… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But… — Jan Masaryk Copy Share Image
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I've sailed with the BJP without any demand, command, complaints or expectations from the time it had just two MPs and that's… — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ladies and Gentlemen this fellow combines the classic stylings of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp…that's… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of… — Maria Jane McIntosh Copy Share Image
The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
An Ass Hole Would Say Sweet Things To Capture The Mind Of A Woman. A Gentleman Would Say Sweet Things To Capture… — Hayze_MiMl Copy Share Image
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image