Gentleman Quotes · Page 22

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

— Charles Tupper

... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;

— Rudyard Kipling

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

— William Faulkner

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

— Robert Walpole

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

— J. P. Morgan

Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has LEFT the building! (I'm the building)

— Olivia Wilde

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

— Herbert Hoover

We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.

— Sandra Fluke

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important…

— Dhani Jones

“Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind…

— Rhoda Janzen

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman,…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

— Lord Chesterfield

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this…

— Joseph McCarthy

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is…

— Dennis Prager

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine…

— William Hazlitt

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

There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon…

— Hafez

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

I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in…

— Anonymous

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

I was raised by my mom. She taught me how to be a gentleman; nobody in the movies taught me. I think…

— Todd Phillips

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

When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply…

— Amor Towles

If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.

— Ian Gillan

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.

— Zengzi

“He turned out the lamp and left the room, his body in agony. Sometimes, it was absolute hell to be a gentleman.”

— Laura Lee Guhrke

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

— Robert E. Lee

Acknowledge yourself, man up along age and then decide to be a gentleman or an another asshole.

— Daniyal Butt

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

— George Axelrod

There are so many emoticons these days, I'm kind of old fashioned.

— Ashley Tisdale

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

— Mark Twain

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

— Anonymous

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

— William Shakespeare

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

— Winston Churchill

Trust is a big deal in life, and I'm very old-school about that stuff.

— Carlos Beruff

How would I treat a girl if she was my girlfriend? I'm a really affectionate person and I like being a gentleman.

— Omarion

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

— Victor Hugo

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

— Andrew Sean Greer