Gentleman Quotes · Page 45

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to…

— Ambrose Bierce

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

— Oliver Cromwell

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

— William Shakespeare

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

— Henry L. Stimson

As a woman, first of all, let me say this: I know Donald Trump for 30 years. We socialized with him. I…

— Jeanine Pirro

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services…

— Colin Powell

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

— W. H. Auden

Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.

— Dan Brown

A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with…

— Herman Melville

I get very annoyed when people think I'm nice or diffident or a polite English gentleman. I'm a nasty piece of work,…

— Hugh Grant

In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman…

— David C. Driskell

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while…

— Oswald Spengler

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you…

— Quentin Crisp

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.

— Jeff Foxworthy

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in…

— Abigail Van Buren

I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman's sport.

— Joseph Parker

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite…

— Beatrix Potter

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

— Christopher Parker

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

— Charlotte Bronte

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

— Little Richard

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I…

— Anna Howard Shaw