Gentleman Quotes · Page 26

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

— George Bernard Shaw

You know, I'm an old man, and there's always parts for old bald guys.

— Michael Hogan

“I warned you that I’m having a difficult time being a gentleman. Should I assume you’re provoking me on purpose?”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— William Shakespeare

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

— Robert E. Lee

Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight.…

— Tina Fey

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

— Phil Mickelson

Ladies and Gentlemen, if you have a friend who says he does not believe in conspiracy, look him straight in the eye…

— Texe W Marrs

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a…

— John Paul Jones

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn;…

— Franz Kafka

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when…

— Anna Godbersen

I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and…

— Albert Rosenfeld

“Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible to analyze but by this…

— Rachilde

“Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game…

— Tony Lema

“even if a gentleman should lose his whole substance, he must never give way to annoyance. Money must be so subservient to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Beatrix Potter

Now how about this, ladies and gentlemen? The Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has announced she is stepping down. She will no…

— David Letterman

“I'm a very popular man, plenty of friends, and I can move in any circle and I'm always a perfect gentleman. I'd…

— Ian Cross

Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament...take a very good look because there's an imposter running around...if someone…

— Eddie Vedder

You say the gentleman I knew has been replaced. How I wish I could offer better comfort than to say that no…

— Lisa Kleypas

We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife… The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life… [F]ace to face with…

— William Ernest Henley

“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”

— Nathan Hale

“A gentleman should always wear grey, you know, because then he will never upstage the lady he is with.”

— Natalie Meg Evans

I'm a gentleman's gentleman, and you're no bloody gentleman.

— Harold Pinter

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.

— Colin Mochrie

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

My computer dating bureau came up with a perfect gentleman. Still, I've got another three goes.

— Sally Poplin

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

— Vince Lombardi

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

— Confucius

“If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad…

— Oscar Wilde

When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.

— Al B. Sure

Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.

— William Shakespeare

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

— Confucius

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

— Bob Riley

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

— Oscar Wilde

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

— Benjamin Franklin

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

— Hugh Leonard