Gentleman Quotes - Page 2

• Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

  Horatio Nelson

  Mistake, Enemy, Navy

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• You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Presidential, Complaining, Lasts

  Press conference, Los Angeles, Calif., 7 Nov. 1962

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• You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

  David Rockefeller

  Kindness, Heart, Income

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Perfect, Majority, Mammals

  "Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, p. 84, 1977.

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• No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Truth, Real

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.339, Univ of California Press

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• Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

  John Heisman

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

  Robert Walpole

  Passion, Patriotism, Deals

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

  George M. Cohan

  Movie, Thank You, Mother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Noblemen, Majesty

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”

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• I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

  Jack Ruby

  Rooms, Innocence, Innocent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

  Bob Riley

  Alabama, Investment, Greater

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• Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

  Alexis Arguello

  Education, Differences, People

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• Blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  Mamie Van Doren

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.

  Edmund Spenser

  Deeds, Gentle

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 6, canto 3, st. 1

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• Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

  John Gielgud

  Doubt, Style, Bed

  John Gielgud (2005). “Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters”, p.92, Arcade Publishing

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

  Simon Raven

  Circumstances, Behave, Unreal

  Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”

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• I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

  David Letterman

  Running, Comedy, Problem

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• A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Money, Real, Sunset

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• 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.

  Anna Kendrick

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "What Makes a Gentleman?". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. October 11, 2011.

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• 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

  Baby, Brain, Intuition

  Phyllis McGinley (1934). “On the contrary”

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• Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Believe, Reading

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• And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Army, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Doe, Want, Chivalry

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.72, Random House

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• Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

  Robert Mugabe

  Sports, Cricket Match, Play

  In Sunday Times 26 Feb. 1984

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