Best Gentleman Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 19

“A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.”

Persons Doe War Country Fighting Enemy Rich Modern Passing Passings Gentleman Foreigners Rich Person

Book:Plays

Source: Plays

“To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.”

Ifs Looks May Has Beens Stills Done Home Today Young Night Term Nice Week Football Bird Performances Coffee Thanks Gentleman Pleasant Looking Good Very Nice Taxi Young Ladies

Author:Ian Holloway

“Gentleman, this is a football.”

Football Gentleman

Author:Vince Lombardi

“Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?”

People Thinking Should Science Teach Nice Teaching Gentleman Engineers Very Nice Oxford

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.”

Wells May Littles Moments Drink Crisis Remains Wine Glasses Gentleman Catastrophe Champagne Wine Glass Vineyards Drinking Wine Drinking Champagne Little Moments Champagne Drinking

Author:Paul Claudel

“You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.”

Men Gentleman Manhood Be A Man

Author:John Wayne

“Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.”

People Want Play Nations Sports Gentleman Cricket Zimbabwe Cricketers Playing Cricket Cricket Funny Cricket Match

Author:Robert Mugabe

“This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you have to be crystal clear yourself. But there are problems here, and in this regard I unfortunately have a suspicion that this is just a way of getting votes and not a genuine desire to solve the problem.”

Way Problem Desire Order Fighting Taken Clear Gay Vote Regard Corruption Solve Genuine Gentleman Theme Suspicion Syria Crystals Fashionable Gay Rights

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.”

Wells Economics Damn Gentleman Just One Damn Things One Thing After Another

Author:John Dustin Archbold

“I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.”

Thinking Want Should Years Age Can Do Agree Gentleman Not Sure Voting Voting Age

Author:Tony Blair

“Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.”

Passion Deals Gentleman Patriotism Nationalism

Author:Robert Walpole

“That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the Hindu paintings? All sorts of grotesque and unnatural figures. What do you see in a Hindu temple? A Chaturbhanga Narayana or some such thing. But take into consideration any Italian picture or Grecian statue-what a study of nature you find in them! A gentleman for twenty years sat burning a candle in his hand, in order to paint a lady carrying a candle in her hand.”

“Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.”

Eternity Gentleman Delinquency

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.”

Love Speak Minutes Months Gentleman Romeo And Juliet Play Self Talk Romeo And Juliet Love

Author:William Shakespeare

“Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.”

Hands Gone Lips Acknowledge Gentleman Hats Acknowledge You

Author:Joan Collins

“The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.”

Sometimes Gentleman

Author:Charles Dickens

“Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.”

Ifs Knows Ends Might Nations Wish Leader Saws Return Demand Luck Passing Passings Gentleman Mourn Bad Luck Ladies And Gentlemen Indignant Impertinence

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.”

Want Desire Judging Fine Jew Mess Gentleman Mills

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.”

Real Gentleman Insult Dishes Magnolias Real Gentleman

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Gentlemen, include me out.”

Funny Witty Gentleman

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.”

Funny Witty Gentleman Listen To Me

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.”

Men Two Night Girl Morning Paper Gentleman Nightclubs

Book:Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

“Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.”

Years War Matter Born Growing Youth Offers Speech Dresses Vices Gentleman Right Thing Pockets Association Merchants Unlearn

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“We can understand that people, seeing this anti-charter slander by certain media, end up thinking ‘Oh God, am I right to support the charter? Am I a good person?’ Well, yes, you are a good person, ladies and gentlemen, you’re part of the majority of people who want a charter.”

People Thinking Want Wells Persons Ends Certain Support Seeing Media Majority Gentleman Good Person Slander Charter Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:Bernard Drainville

“Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has LEFT the building! (I'm the building)”

Left Building Gentleman Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:Olivia Wilde

“Ladies and Gentlemen this fellow combines the classic stylings of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp....that's right, boys and girls every where, your friend Pimpbot 5000!”

Girl Boys Streets Fellows Gentleman Classic Robots Boy And Girl Ladies And Gentlemen Flair Pimp

Author:Conan O'Brien

“A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.”

Should Would Be Deeds Gentleman Ashamed Deeds And Words Perfect Gentleman Deeds Not Words

Book:The Analects

Source: The Analects

“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”

Wells Littles Enough College University Servant Gentleman Pedantry Pedantic

Author:William Congreve

“We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?”

Way Spirit Tongue Evening Gentleman Honey

Author:Robin Williams

“I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman.”

Knows Wife Gentleman Files Gentlemanly

Author:Dean Martin

“If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.”

Ifs Should Mean Gentleman Majesty

Author:Peter O'Toole

“Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.”

World Reality Audience Admire Welcome Gentleman Heroism Queues Ovation

Author:David Foster

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It's not like the sheep was underage.”

Gentleman Sheep Jury Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:Colin Mochrie

“I love a man who knows how to walk. I do like a gentleman, a man who opens the door and a man who walks on the proper side of the street with you. There’s something safe about it; he’s protecting you. That’s a really nice quality. You don’t see it as often anymore. I pay attention to those things. I know it sounds silly, but I love that. I’m fortunate to say that I have a good guy. Oh, and he has to have great hands. There’s a lot I find sexy in a man, but strong, manly hands are very important.”

Knows Men Important Hands Guy Strong Sound Sides Walks Pay Attention Quality Know How Nice Doors Streets Safe Sexy Silly Pay Attention Fortunate Gentleman Good Guy Really Nice Manly Strong Man

Author:Lana Parrilla

“I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.”

Actors Brilliant Enjoyed Gentleman Companion Delightful Great Friend True Gentleman

Author:Myrna Loy

“Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.”

Pleasure Smart Ice Gentleman

Author:Judd Nelson

“Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasn't one more thing you could've done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman - you're perfect!”

“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.”

Turns Gentleman Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:Neil Innes

“Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.”

Giving Years Looks May Father Waiting Brother Arms Fool Ten Idiot Gentleman Eleven Open Arms Father And Brother

Author:Groucho Marx

“Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.”

Men Matter Age Choices Birth Males Gentleman Diesel Perfect Gentleman

Author:Vin Diesel

“Steve Burton, I adore. He's got the overall picture. He's wise beyond his years. He's not overwhelmed, and he's not in awe. He's a gentleman. And a hunk.”

Years Wise Gentleman Awe Adore Overwhelmed Hunk

Author:Leslie Charleson

“The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.”

Sweet Smell Gentleman

Author:Bertrice Small

“Lenny Kravitz was the biggest gentleman on set. He always helped the ladies, like by pulling out the chair for them. If we were both walking, he would always stop and let me go before him-little things like that.”

Ifs Littles Walking Let Me Gentleman Chairs Little Things Pulling Let Me Go

Author:Willow Shields

“I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister”

People Has Beens Opposites Ministers Gentleman Crowns Protestants

Author:Wilfrid Laurier

“[T]hese people have shown a remarkable ability, ladies and gentlemen, to cross borders, boundaries - they get anywhere they want to go. They can do it without water for a long time. They don't get apprehended, and they will do things other people won't do. So, our money, early money, is on the Hispanics.”

People Want Long Water Can Do Ability Long Time Crosses Boundaries Immigration Borders Gentleman Remarkable Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.”

Animal Blood Anger Gentle Gentleman Resentment

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has been a long, hard and excruciatingingly painful road. For more than five years there has been one investigation after another and now, vindication. And to give the proper dimension I take the cherished words of the late great Dr Martin Luther King: Free at last...thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.”

“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.”

Life Pain Success Definitions Gentleman

Author:John Henry Newman

“If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Running I Believe Fear Poor Blood Streets Masters Gentleman Priests Philanthropy Philanthropist Gutters Barricades

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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