Gentleman Quotes

845 Gentleman quotes by 583 unique authors

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there… — George Combe
This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of… — Chanakya
Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave?… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen, — Herb Brooks
Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a tree be called… — Hugo Ball
Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so… — Frank Abagnale
A gentleman is not disturbed by anything — Aristotle
The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants! — William Shirley
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts… — George Mason
When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale. — Ronald Reagan
The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified. — Confucius
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man… — Confucius
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. — Thomas Huxley
A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence. — Zengzi
We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman. — Robert E. Lee
Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go? — Ron Killings
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head,… — Charles Lamb
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more… — Abraham Lincoln
Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen. — Winston Churchill
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and… — Barry S. Strauss
Gentlemen, let's go row! — Robert A. Heinlein
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm… — Caleb Cushing
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially… — Wystan Hugh Auden
We are two travelers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog-come here, you scamp! Jump for the gentleman-mind your eye! Over the table,-look out for the… — John Townsend Trowbridge
Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over. — Herbert Hoover

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