Gentleman Quotes
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I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
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I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out
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In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.
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It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.
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The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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She wouldn't shake my hand! I said 'C'mon, be a gentleman'.
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
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The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.
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I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
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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.
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A modern gentleman 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.
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Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman.
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Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
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The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.
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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.
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Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn’t mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.
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If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.
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Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
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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.
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There's no one beating Mr. Bachchan when it comes to acting. He is outstanding. He is a phenomenal actor and a thorough gentleman. His natural skills at acting just bowled me over, and I've become an even bigger fan of his after working with him.
