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845 Gentleman quotes by 583 unique authors
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We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.
— Robert E. Lee
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The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can…
— Robert E. Lee
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When you call us, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, we do have your phone number, and if you say anything untoward, obscene, or…
— Bill O'Reilly
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When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were…
— Mark Twain
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But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
— Robert Falcon Scott
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A lot of people are curious why I'm a lesbian. Ladies and gentlemen, the cast of Entourage!
— Jane Lynch
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A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
— Leo Tolstoy
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
— Socrates
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It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.
— Athenaeus
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Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.
— Karen Traviss
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For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies…
— Woodrow Wilson
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This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
— John Evelyn
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Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly…
— Clark Gable
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In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of…
— Karl Marx
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And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good…
— Lord Byron
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Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
— George M. Cohan
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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
— Margaret Oliphant
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Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
— H. L. Mencken
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Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.
— Robert Ludlum
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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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