Best Gentlemen Wisdom
438 Gentlemen quotes by 333 unique authors
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it…
— Harper Lee
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Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would…
— Gore Vidal
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Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be…
— Woodrow Wilson
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like…
— Karel Capek
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Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
— Simon Raven
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Gentlemen, start your egos.
— Billy Crystal
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I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.
— Aziz Ansari
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Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
— John Gielgud
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Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give…
— Victor Cousin
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I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws…
— Samuel J. Tilden
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The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving,…
— Adolf Hitler
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Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
— Cole Porter
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Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club…
— Iain Banks
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There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.
— Len Goodman
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Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
— Ernest Rutherford
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You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on…
— David Foster Wallace
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This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and…
— John Kasich
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The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play…
— D. A. Carson
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Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking…
— A. P. Herbert
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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to…
— Lajos Kossuth
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An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make…
— James Bryce
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Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard…
— Edgar Wilson Nye
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