Gentleman Quotes - Page 18

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And you're such a gentleman.""Not with you, love. But I'm trying.

Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.

Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman.

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

Women tend to collaborate, in my experience, more easily than gentlemen do.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.