Gentleman Quotes · Page 25

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

— Anonymous

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

— Arthur Conan Doyle

You say my morals are old fashioned? I say it's a sign of being brought up properly..

— Ritu Ghatourey

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

— Confucius

“The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.”

— George Everett Macdonald

He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.

— Caitlin Kittredge

“he sometimes took out a gun, but never killed; quite the gentleman.”

— Jane Austen

Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of…

— Frank Miller

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share…

— Carol Leifer

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

— James Russell Lowell

Nice guys finish last because they make sure they put their woman first which would be fine if women didn't always take…

— Anonymous

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it…

— William Hazlitt

A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth…

— Confucius

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then,…

— David Rockefeller

The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by…

— Konrad Lorenz

“I think he was a little like the lizard that changes color with its surroundings. He appeared far more a gentleman in…

— John Fowles

Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like…

— Dorothy Osborne

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by…

— George Bernard Shaw

It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called…

— Anonymous

I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me…

— Dorothy Parker

I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making…

— Samuel J. Tilden

I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but…

— Muhammad Ali

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

— Charles Dickens

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

— Silvio Berlusconi

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

For a brief period, I had a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania, but even then, I kept a place in New York.

— Alan Menken

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

— Robin Williams

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

— David Letterman

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

— Joan Miro

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.

— A. J. McLean

Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.

— Joseph Abboud

He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?

— Libba Bray

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

— Ronald Reagan

Women tend to collaborate, in my experience, more easily than gentlemen do.

— Sallie Krawcheck

Vishal is a gentleman. I really enjoyed working with him on the sets. But he keeps pulling everybody's leg!

— Catherine Tresa

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Be too much of a lady to put up with anything less than a gentleman.

— Anonymous