A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Twenty-nine years ago, I came to faith in Christ after a gentleman from the Gideon's International gave me a free copy of… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
“He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
But we live in an age, ladies and gentlemen, where we are keeping morons alive in our gene pools by putting warnings… — Wil Anderson Copy Share Image
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
[Mikhail] Gorbachev complained. He was told look, there's nothing on paper. People didn't actually say it but the implication was look, if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Every age but ours has had its model, its ideal. All of these have been given up by our culture; the saint,… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
You look at William Powell in 'My Man Godfrey' and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I got into college, and a gentleman gave me a ride in a plane, and he flipped it upside down so we're… — Jimmy Graham Copy Share Image
If your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night before you put the kids to bed and you talk… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. “We both know I’m not a gentleman.” “Yeah. Okay, let… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what… — Elliot Cowan Copy Share Image
What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Media hosts just talk about Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher and again miss the point. I was talking about AMERICAN culture, ladies… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable… — Elizabeth Marie Pope Copy Share Image
The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it.… — Anna Nicole Smith Copy Share Image
We live in a world where it's so accessible to date now, which is great. I don't judge that. We have so… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The street sprinkler went past and, as its rasping rotary broom spread water over the tarmac, half the pavement looked as if… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We can understand that people, seeing this anti-charter slander by certain media, end up thinking ‘Oh God, am I right to support… — Bernard Drainville Copy Share Image
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image