Gentlemen Quotes

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

Benjamin Peirce

Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.

Alexandre Dumas

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Robert Burton

The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and their leather boots, nibbling burnt cakes and praising Diamond's mind, and all the while their eyes said other things. their eyes said. Then: 'You are flowers,' their mouths said, 'You are jewels, you are golden dreams.' Their eyes said:

Patricia A. McKillip

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Haruki Murakami

And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard. You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore? May you know it yet ten more.

John Crowe Ransom

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Frederick Douglass

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Margaret Oliphant

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Charles Dickens

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

H. L. Mencken

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Oscar Wilde

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

Edgar Allan Poe

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Rebecca West

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

Fred A. Allen

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.

Abraham Lincoln

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

English Proverb

Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.

Edward Fox

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Oscar Wilde

He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles -- that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.

H. Seton Merriman