Gentleman Quotes

• 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

• No gentleman ever has any money.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Money
  • Gentleman
  • Has

• 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

• All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

  

  Katie Price
  • Death
  • Sick
  • Gentleman

• There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

  

  Hafez
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Lost

• The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • City
  • Smart
  • Hero

• The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Bad
  • Funny
  • Boy

• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Men
  • Gentleman
  • Wolf

• In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall - and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Deep

• At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Food
  • Accepting
  • Pity

• A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Kiss
  • Gentleman

• This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money comes from Washington, from outside the state of Texas, and they've run millions and millions of untrue ads against me.

  

  David Dewhurst
  • Money
  • Texas
  • Gentleman

• He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Daughter
  • Gentleman
  • Gentlema`s

• At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.

  

  Elliot Cowan
  • Music
  • Party
  • Gentleman

• Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.

  

  Luigi Pirandello
  • Time
  • Gentleman

• A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Never
  • Gentleman
  • Tailor

• My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Duty
  • Pleasures
  • Interfered

• Sir Walter, being strangely supprized and putt out of his countenance at so great a Table, gives his son a damned blow over the face; his son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face of the Gentleman that sate next to him, and sayed, Box about, 'twill come to my Father anon. 'Tis now a common used Proverb.

  

  John Aubrey
  • Great
  • Father
  • Son

• In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives, but whose experience of it was in the same register as all our lives are - we feel the same extent of human emotion regardless of how exceptional our actions are: nothing is more exceptional than one's own life.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

  

  Confucius
  • Gentleman
  • Master
  • Understands

• Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • House
  • Couple

• Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Man
  • Marriage

• 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

• When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Education
  • Teaches

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