Gentleman Quotes - Page 22

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.

Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.

If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!

Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.

The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.