Certain Quote by Samuel Johnson

“A gentleman can’t let a lady sleep in an armchair while he takes his ease in a bed.” “But you are not a gentleman,”…

— Christina Brooke

“He talks as the man of his age talks -- that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for…

— raymond chandler

His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up…

— Tavis Smiley

Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so…

— Duncan Jones

“The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who…

— Confucius

“You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the…

— Hilary Mantel

“A good speech should be a like a woman’s skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. —WINSTON CHURCHILL”

— Bill McGowan

“The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.”

— Lawrence Booth

“Do you know, my dear Sir, the position of a man who has nowhere to go, and yet has to go somewhere?”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“all the respects that I have so far mentioned, conversation fits the bill of a free association which is subservient to no purpose but…

— Roger Scruton

Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence…

— Owen Feltham