Gentleman Quotes · Page 21

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

— William Hazlitt

“He swore loudly, confused. I won't repeat the word here. I'm a gentleman.”

— rose christo

How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.

— H. L. Mencken

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

— Alex Pettyfer

I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

— Martin Buber

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

— Confucius

“I'll be a perfect gentleman. Just clit-sucking and jerking off, no funny business.”

— Kit Rocha

I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.

— John Schneider

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of…

— Ambrose

The tannoy is crackling but I can only hear heavy breathing and snuffling. ... Uh-oh, the tannoy is crackling again. "Sorry about…

— Louise Rennison

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing…

— Karel Capek

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play…

— Robert Ludlum

“Tam considers me a challenge. I consider Tam a work in progress. I also think there's a gentleman lurking under that calculating…

— Lisa Shearin

Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride…

— William Shakespeare

If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the…

— Larry McMurtry

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. I was free. I touched pretty nigh everybody for money…

— George Bernard Shaw

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of…

— George Bernard Shaw

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force,…

— Jefferson Davis

It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm…

— Clark Gable

Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave…

— Anonymous

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

— Jessica Hahn

“I'm not a gentleman,' Toby said. 'I don't think I've ever even seen a gentleman.”

— John Brandon

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

— May Sarton

Ne-Yooooo, it's a thug and a gentleman. Rollin like a boss do, no matter the cost to.

— Ne-yo

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

— Adolf Hitler

“Am I so desperate I must accept any gentleman who is not a villain or a gargoyle?”

— Tracy Anne Warren

The old school in me knows how to get over and get other guys over. I'm going to continue to do it.

— Randy Orton

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

— Thorstein Veblen

Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

— Sojourner Truth

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

— W. H. Auden

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

— George Bernard Shaw

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

— John Dryden

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

— Thomas Day

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

— Frederick Douglass

The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

— William Makepeace Thackeray