Gentleman Quotes · Page 16

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.

— Samuel Goldwyn

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

— Radclyffe Hall

You say my morals are old fashioned? I say it's a sign of being brought up properly..

— Ritu Ghatourey

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

— Arnold Palmer

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

— John Constable

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman…

— John Bercow

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Ball-room introductions cease with the object—viz.: dancing; nor subsequently anywhere else can a gentleman approach the lady by salutation or in any…

— Samuel Roberts Wells

“Mister Jordan?” Came the genteel, restrained voice of a more senior gentleman in the front of the canoe. “Yes, General?” “Shut up.”…

— Christina Engela

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we…

— Benjamin Peirce

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

— Simon Raven

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

I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me…

— Susanna Clarke

Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his…

— Miyamoto Musashi

I think we're always in love. It's that simple. And it's important to remember that love doesn't have anything to do with…

— Nikki Giovanni

During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini…

— James Keller

“Gentleman Jim [dog] was cheerful enough, partly because his owner was so well trained... He had alsot trained him to get up…

— Livi Michael

“For this reason the gentleman will employ a man on a distant mission and observe his degree of loyalty, will employ him…

— Confucius

God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born upon this day, To save us…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“To the door of an inn in the provincial town of N. there drew up a smart britchka—a light spring-carriage of the…

— Nikolai Gogol

Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd;…

— William Shakespeare

I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.

— Italo Calvino

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

— Anonymous

M old fashioned but I dont mind it. Thats how I want to be as long as you agree. To stay old…

— Beegie Adair

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

— John Locke

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

— Leo Tolstoy

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

— Cassandra Clare

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

— Silvio Berlusconi

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

For a brief period, I had a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania, but even then, I kept a place in New York.

— Alan Menken

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

— Charles Dickens

He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.

— Caitlin Kittredge

“he sometimes took out a gun, but never killed; quite the gentleman.”

— Jane Austen

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

— Confucius

“The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.”

— George Everett Macdonald

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

— Ronald Reagan

He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

— Libba Bray