Gentleman Quotes - page 4

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train. (Phyllis McGinley)
The young gentleman is correct," he said. Halt raised an eyebrow. "He may be correct, and he is undoubtedly young. But he's no gentleman." ~Halt and General Sapristi speaking of Will. View quote
John Flanagan
This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy. View quote
Marsha Blackburn
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value. View quote
Anna Howard Shaw
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days. View quote
Anna Kendrick
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part. View quote
Brian McKnight
A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful. View quote
Brian McKnight
You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman. View quote
Ben Cross
The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one. View quote
Charles Tupper
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. (Christopher Parker)
When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It's about the reestablishment of the gentleman. View quote
Dhani Jones
I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played. View quote
Dustin Johnson
I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety. View quote
Eric Stoltz
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs. View quote
John Bercow
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady. View quote
Keith Miller
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. View quote
Lawrence G. Lovasik
The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win. View quote
Phil Mickelson
Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman. View quote
Randy Neugebauer
Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again. View quote
Ricardo Montalban
The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman. (Sydney Biddle Barrows)
I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman. View quote
Vince Gill
There never was a greater perfectionist, there never was, and never will be, a better dancer, and I never knew anybody more kind, more considerate, or more completely a gentleman...I love Fred, John, and I admire and respect him. I guess it's because he's so many things I'd like to be and I'm not. View quote
Fred Astaire
The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry. View quote
Jeff VanderMeer
So still was he, that but for the searching intellect which glittered in his full dark eye, you might have taken him for a carven image as he pondered his moves. His bearing was mild and that of a refined gentleman, and he dealt the most crushing blows on his adversary with an almost womanly ease and grace. View quote
Paul Morphy