Eric Stoltz Quotes

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

Eric Stoltz

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• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Goal
  • Being
  • Gentleman

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Death

• I was always the Southern gentleman.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Always
  • Gentleman
  • Southern

• Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Country
  • Community
  • Balance

• The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Death
  • Woman
  • Gentleman

• The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Taken

• My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Women
  • Man
  • Gentleman

• The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Heart
  • Learning
  • Gentleman

• I cannot anyhow continue to find people agreeable; I respect Mrs. Chamberlayne for doing her hair well, but cannot feel a more tender sentiment. Miss Langley is like any other short girl, with a broad nose and wide mouth, fashionable dress and exposed bosom. Adm. Stanhope is a gentleman-like man, but then his legs are too short and his tail too long.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Long
  • Girl

• Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Unknown
  • Gentleman

• 'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Great
  • Small
  • Knowledge

• I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Real
  • Fashion
  • Style

• No lady is ever a gentleman.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Gentleman

• A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

  

  Anna Howard Shaw
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik
  • Eyes
  • Present
  • Gentleman

• George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

  

  Ann Robinson
  • Control
  • Gentleman

• Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • She
  • Age
  • Daughter

• It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Gentleman

• 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 fair.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Life
  • World
  • Play

• Our hope is that whosoever is in power, manages this country consistently for all the potential the country has.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • Power
  • Hope

• The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Today
  • Game

• danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Dream
  • Danger
  • Direct

• I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Gentleman
  • Propriety