Gentleman Quotes
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The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
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A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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'You're a gentleman,' they used to say to him. 'You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman.'
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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.
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Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney.'
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The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)
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Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.
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The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
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Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
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He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
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A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
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I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
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The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
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Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.
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You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by mistake since its colors are those of the London Reform Club. Once tied around its victim's neck, it strangles him gently and then claims the insurance before running off to Germany where it lives in hiding.
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That is the fourth course, which in future I trust the right hon. Gentleman (Sir R. Peel) will not forget. The right hon. Gentleman tells us to go back to precedents; with him a great measure is always founded on a small precedent. He traces the steam-engine always back to the tea-kettle. His precedents are generally tea-kettle precedents.
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A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
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I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
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I remember-the interruption of the hon. Gentleman reminds me of the words of a great writer, who said that 'Grace was beauty in action.' 'Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. Truth should animate an opposition, and I hope it does animate this opposition.;
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'Oh, dear no, miss,' he said. 'This is a London particular.' I had never heard of such a thing. 'A fog, miss,' said the young gentleman. 'Oh, indeed!' said I.
