Gentleman Quotes
845 quotes by 607 authors
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
— Walter Bagehot
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
— Otto von Bismarck
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but…
— Malin Akerman
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In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived…
— Carol Burnett
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by…
— Lord Byron
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
— Nick Cave
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
— Fred Allen
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you…
— Raymond Chandler
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
— Charlie Chaplin
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All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts…
— Dianne Feinstein
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It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I…
— Washington Irving
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Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
— Duke of Wellington
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Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his weapons. If a…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you…
— Jamie Foxx
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The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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