... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“As you wish. But I felt several personal items here while I was a guest at the house party, so if you… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a… — Pierre Daninos Copy Share Image
When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why… — Doug TenNapel Copy Share Image
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only… — Confucius Copy Share Image
We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Sinatra was always an impeccable gentleman. He stood up for women when they came to the table; he lit their cigarettes, held… — Eliot Weisman Copy Share Image
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“He’d often ignored his uncle’s teachings about gentlemanly behavior, but one stricture he’d always abided by: no man worth his salt took… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man… — Burton Watson Copy Share Image
This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars,… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat… — John A. Macdonald Copy Share Image
From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game… — Tony Lema Copy Share Image
“The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow. ("The Vengeance Of… — Robert Barr Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and… — Albert Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible to analyze but by this… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Ladies and Gentlemen, if you have a friend who says he does not believe in conspiracy, look him straight in the eye… — Texe W Marrs Copy Share Image
