Gentleman Quotes - page 3

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
No gentleman ever has any money. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." View quote
Henry Clay
It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not. View quote
Henry George
Sir Walter, being strangely supprized and putt out of his countenance at so great a Table, gives his son a damned blow over the face; his son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face of the Gentleman that sate next to him, and sayed, Box about, 'twill come to my Father anon. View quote
John Aubrey
No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared. It must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her. View quote
Jane Austen
He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. View quote
Jane Austen
But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days. View quote
Jane Austen
Hal: God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes. View quote
Joe Orton
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation - to serve in parliaments, - and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people's interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof. (Oliver Cromwell)
I am at heart a gentleman. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty. View quote
Stephen Leacock
The gentleman will sit! The gentleman is correct in sitting! View quote
Anthony Weiner
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. View quote
Louis Kronenberger
The prince of darkness is a gentleman. View quote
William Shakespeare
The dog is a gentleman I hope to go to his heaven, not man's. View quote
Mark Twain
A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. View quote
Russell Lynes
The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world. View quote
Hugo Chávez
They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half. (Otto von Bismarck)
To a gentleman, who, at the close of a fierce dispute with Porson, exclaimed, "My opinion of you is most contemptible, Sir"; he retorted, "I never knew an opinion of yours that was not contemptible." View quote
Richard Porson
You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman. View quote
Andrew Sean Greer
Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, "but a gentleman never could. View quote
Susanna Clarke