Gentlemanly Quotes

21 quotes by 21 authors

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron
Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody… — Sara Maitland
I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman. — Dean Martin
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. — Ty Cobb
I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means,… — George Bernard Shaw
People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and… — Simon Baker
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very… — George Catlin
I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and,… — Jeffrey Tambor
I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated that badly, that… — John Oliver
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated… — Mary McCarthy
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands… — Janet Malcolm
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. — Robert Louis Stevenson
There is only one way to fight, and that's dirty. Clean gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot,… — Jeaniene Frost
I shall have one, too," he told her. "So that you don't feel alone." She tried not to smile. "That is most generous of you."… — Julia Quinn
To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not. — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my brother Charlie and I all worked for… — Doris Eaton Travis
You can't snort a line of coke off a womans a** and not wonder about her hopes and dreams, it's not gentlemanly. — Hank Moody
Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against dishonorable… — Scott Lynch
Namath is still Namath, but I must say that our guys were nice to him. I noticed when they knocked him down, they helped him… — John Mckay

Who Wrote These Gentlemanly Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 21 Gentlemanly Quotes as follows: