Gentleman Quotes · Page 17

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.

— A. J. McLean

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

— Joan Miro

Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.

— Joseph Abboud

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

— Robin Williams

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

— David Letterman

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

— George Bernard Shaw

Be too much of a lady to put up with anything less than a gentleman.

— Anonymous

a gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they…

— Sting

Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication…

— Max Frisch

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees,…

— John Locke

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

— Augustus Hare

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same…

— Anthony Trollope

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount…

— Terry Pratchett

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your…

— Samuel Richardson

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or…

— Marcus Aurelius

I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say,…

— Patrick Henry

Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the…

— Frances Trollope

Roger Casement is an intriguing figure - humanitarian, Irish revolutionary, gay - and much had and would be written about him, there…

— Sabina Murray

I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the…

— Margaret Mitchell

Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. " Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a…

— Loretta Chase

A gentleman is so 1995, so hard for a girl to find. A real husband is so 1999, so hard for a…

— The Saturdays

Wait a minute. You expect me to stay overnight in a house with four single men? Sean grinned. We're perfect gentlemen, Kim.…

— Jennifer Ashley

There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper…

— Anonymous

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

— George Bernard Shaw

Vishal is a gentleman. I really enjoyed working with him on the sets. But he keeps pulling everybody's leg!

— Catherine Tresa

Women tend to collaborate, in my experience, more easily than gentlemen do.

— Sallie Krawcheck

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

— Benjamin Disraeli

My computer dating bureau came up with a perfect gentleman. Still, I've got another three goes.

— Sally Poplin

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.

— Colin Mochrie

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

— Confucius

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

— Vince Lombardi

“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”

— Nathan Hale

I'm a gentleman's gentleman, and you're no bloody gentleman.

— Harold Pinter

“A gentleman should always wear grey, you know, because then he will never upstage the lady he is with.”

— Natalie Meg Evans

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

— William Shakespeare

Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight.…

— Tina Fey

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

— Robert E. Lee

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

— Phil Mickelson