Gentleman Quotes - Page 11

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

But we live in an age, ladies and gentlemen, where we are keeping morons alive in our gene pools by putting warnings on items that should not require warnings. The hotel I am staying in has a hair dryer, on the cord of the hair dryer there is a warning and this is what it says: “Warning! Do not use in shower!” Ladies and gentlemen if you have a friend who wants to use their hair dryer in the shower, you let them.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

It is perfectly right for a gentleman to say "ladies and gentlemen," but a lady should say, "gentlemen and ladies." You mention your friend's name before you do your own. I always feel like rebuking any woman who says, "ladies and gentlemen." It is a lack of good manners.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

Gentlemen, include me out.

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.