Old Gentleman Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I… — Washington Irving
Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. — Ambrose Bierce
Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped… — N. T. Wright
From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny… — W.N.P. Barbellion
When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One… — Josef Koudelka
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an… — Ambrose Bierce
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of… — Charles Spurgeon
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old… — Stephen Leacock
Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old… — Susanna Clarke
As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin… — Robert Fulghum
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close… — E. M. Forster
I'll sing you a new ballad, andI'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate; When they spent… — Charles Dickens

Who Wrote These Old Gentleman Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Old Gentleman Quotes as follows: