Old Gentleman Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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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
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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: