Gentleman Quotes · Page 18

“I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran”

— Krista Alasti

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

— Confucius

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

— Gustave Flaubert

“A gentleman doesn’t talk much about the taxes he paid, or the women he sleeps with.”

— Haruki Murakami

Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.

— Anita Loos

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

— Iman Abdulmajid

Wasim Akram is a splendid human being and a thorough gentleman.

— Sushmita Sen

Sangakkara was a force and an absolute gentleman of the game.

— Michael Clarke

Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best…

— Laozi

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

If your boyfriend is a gentleman and many girls want him, that's another reason to keep him happy and treat him right.…

— KM II

Ladies and gentlemen, Im going to prove to you not only that Freddy Quimby is guilty, but that he is also innocent…

— Lionel

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

— Ambrose Bierce

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised…

— Sarah MacLean

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and…

— Robin Williams

Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned…

— Cassandra Clare

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly…

— Corrie Ten Boom

Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with…

— Gail Carriger

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that…

— W. H. Auden

The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment…

— David Foster Wallace

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the…

— James Joyce

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I am a very lucky lady that my life partner, Daniel, is a true-blue Southern gentleman. Watching him in action not only…

— Susan C. Young

An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who…

— Anonymous

We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.

— Benjamin Guggenheim

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a…

— Paul Morphy

Being a male is the matter of birth, being a man is the matter of age, But being a gentleman is the…

— Anonymous

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

— Dan Brown

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

— Margaret Mitchell

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

— Ian Fleming

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

— William Shakespeare

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 2008 Canadian CEO of the year, Frank DAngelo.

— Terence Corcoran

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

— J. G. Holland

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

— Charles Dickens

A man, without at least a pinch of femininity, will never be a gentleman.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.

— John Vanbrugh

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

— Richard Heber

I was brought up in a slightly older style. I don't play with my collar up.

— Scott Parker