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
You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In the films I've done recently, I've been learning a little more about the side of myself that enjoys being a light.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Papa was a gentleman of the last century, with all the chivalrous character, self-reliance, and gallantry of the youth of that time.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Mr. Kadam bowed and said, “Miss Kelsey, I will leave you to your dining companion. Enjoy your dinner.” Then he walked out… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in… — Eric Massa Copy Share Image
In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Ladies and Gentlemen, we're about to begin boarding. If we could ask for your cooperation, please stay seated until you row has… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
“He's so handsome," Phoebe commented just as Finley directed her attention at her. "Who?" she demanded. "The Duke of Greythorne," came the… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and… — H. L. Mencken 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
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be… — William Graham Sumner 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
The soul and body are joint-sharers in every thing they get: A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was raised by my mom. She taught me how to be a gentleman; nobody in the movies taught me. I think… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
![“About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the…” quote by John Aubrey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d43/john-aubrey-29611_convinced_about-thomas-hobbes-he-was-40-years-old_1668279.jpg)
![“Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent; Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]” quote by Jean de La Fontaine](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7af/jean-de-la-fontaine-2320_clown_let-us-not-overstrain-our-talents-lest-w_560631.jpg)
