Gentleman Quotes - Page 17

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It’s because he doesn’t care! He’s in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.