Gentleman Quotes
845 Gentleman quotes by 583 unique authors
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When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our…
— Vince Lombardi
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What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life?…
— Ernest Gaines
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What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity…
— Robin Williams
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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
— William Shakespeare
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A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch, which was a…
— Brian McKnight
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Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon
— William Shakespeare
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Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned…
— Gough Whitlam
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And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of…
— Bertrand Russell
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Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe…
— George Augustus Henry Sala
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter…
— Wyndham Lewis
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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent…
— George Bernard Shaw
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To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've…
— Ian Holloway
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Gentleman, this is a football.
— Vince Lombardi
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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there.…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.
— Paul Claudel
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
— John Wayne
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Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
— Robert Mugabe
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This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you have to be…
— Vladimir Putin
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Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.
— Unknown Author
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I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not…
— Tony Blair
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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
— Robert Walpole
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That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
— Rudyard Kipling
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
— William Shakespeare
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