Gentleman Quotes
845 Gentleman quotes by 583 unique authors
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This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.
— George Saunders
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I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just…
— Juno Temple
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I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
— Eric Stoltz
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Blondes also prefer gentlemen.
— Mamie Van Doren
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A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.
— Confucius
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Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.
— Colin Powell
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In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the…
— O. Henry
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IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will…
— Robert Walpole
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my…
— Madeleine Stowe
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You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And…
— Anne Stuart
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What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the…
— Lester Cole
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A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
— Confucius
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The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires…
— Edmund Burke
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
— Charles de Gaulle
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I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls…
— George Eliot
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Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
— Winston Churchill
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a…
— Isaac Asimov
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No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,…
— Henry James
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
— Woodrow Wilson
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That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has…
— Alexander Hamilton
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Ladies and Gentlemen, King of the Stupid Question: Todd Grisham!
— John Cena
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Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS.
— Wade Barrett
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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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