Gentleman Quotes - Page 10

We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.

If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe is the word, gentlemen, heh heh for passive intercourse or (b) if he is a different type baboon more extrovert and well-adjusted, lead an attack on an even weaker baboon if he can find one.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.