Gentleman Quotes

Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down.

Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him.

I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

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

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

A true gentleman never leaves his lady.