Gentleman Quotes · Page 23

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

— Confucius

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

— Charles Dickens

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen…

— John Ruskin

Dissing your ex over the internet makes you less of a gentleman.In fact,less of a man.

— Kwanele Mketeni

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

— Charles Darwin

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

— Jack Ruby

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

— P. G. Wodehouse

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

— William Lyon Phelps

Kim Jong Il made his staff call him “dear” and spent the day drinking cognac. It's like I have a twin, ladies…

— David Letterman

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward…

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real…

— Ogden Nash

Herman Cain told a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters to go home, get a job, and get a life. That's the…

— Jay Leno

“Mr. Segundus began to suspect that they had an uneventful morning, and that when a strange gentleman had walked into the room…

— Susanna Clarke

People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration…

— Simon Baker

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he…

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

“Mr. Kadam bowed and said, “Miss Kelsey, I will leave you to your dining companion. Enjoy your dinner.” Then he walked out…

— Colleen Houck

“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

... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her…

— Frances Trollope

In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities…

— Louis Pasteur

I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what…

— Charlotte Bronte

The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining.

— David Zippel

Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman

— Judd Nelson

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

— Len Goodman

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

— Emily Dickinson

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

— Woodrow Wilson

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a…

— William Congreve

A True Lady Doesn't Demand… She Thanks!!! A True gentleman Doesn't Promise... He Commits unconditionally.

— Bel Claveria Carig Martinez

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

— Christopher Hitchens

“A man who is a gentleman in his cups may be trusted to be a gentleman at all times.”

— Anthony Trollope

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

— Mason Cooley

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

— Henri Rousseau

“Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”

— Marquis De Sade

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

— Pete Rose

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

— Winston Churchill