Gentleman Quotes · Page 19

I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.

— James Buchanan

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

— Confucius

Stay out of the gentlemen's clubs. Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

— Anthony Trollope

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and…

— Otto von Bismarck

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

— John Henry Newman

Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are.

— Ed Sabol

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and…

— Margaret Halsey

The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave…

— John Bright

You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least…

— Anne Stuart

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

— Compton Mackenzie

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass…

— Paul Claudel

There are a few things a true gentleman cannot live without. The black silk knitted square-bottom tie is just such an indispensable…

— Roger Stone

It's easy to play a character who is suffering with a disease or has a psychological problem. 'Gentleman' is completely opposite. There…

— Nani

George III's ability to step in and out of his role fed stories of commoners chancing upon a sturdy gentleman by the…

— Amanda Foreman

Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will…

— John Gibson Paton

[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see…

— Anonymous

If any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned…I…

— Heber C. Kimball

Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the…

— Barry S. Strauss

It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention…

— Susan B. Anthony

What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of…

— Robin Williams

What is your name?" "Again sir, that is no concern of yours." "A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you…

— Georgette Heyer

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

— Neil Innes

It's amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players.

— Jon Champion

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

— Benjamin Disraeli

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

— Anita Loos

“Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to be persued, not the persuer.”

— Kristi Cook

Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

— Anonymous

Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?

— Ron Killings

“This young gentleman was like something from out of a leather-bound book!”

— Lindsay Eland

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

— Fanny Burney

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I always wanted to play a dapper gentleman, and I also always wanted to play my mum.

— Taika Waititi

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“If you ain't native to a place, you have a better chance of becoming a gentleman in it.”

— George Lamming

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

— Denis Leary

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

— Joe Wilson