Gentleman Quotes - Page 28

• I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

  Brian McKnight

  Mean, Dresses, Walks

  "Celebrity Collector: Brian McKnight". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Believe, Reality

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 20 (1960)

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• Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Matter, Telling The Truth

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• Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

  Laozi

  Use, Arms, Weapons

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.47, Chinese University Press

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• Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Children, Pain, Play

  Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

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• There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Home, Men, Pieces

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Devil, Sometimes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.239

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• The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Years, Democracy, Half

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• I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

  Aziz Ansari

  Cutting, Band, Slim

  "Questions for Aziz Ansari" by Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. August 12, 2011.

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• Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in history:-not accidentally, but necessarily; not at any particular epoch, but in all; in short, -what idea he is called to represent.

  Victor Cousin

  Country, Men, Wind

  Victor Cousin (1832). “Introduction to the History of Philosophy”, p.240

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• I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

  Clement Attlee

  Decision, Political, Politics

  Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”

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• Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Justice, Hypocrisy, Envy

  c.1874 Letter.

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• I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws in order to protect their fortunes. I also know they have no compassion for the masses of the people in this country who are without money and who are, many of them, without food or houses. I have always thought that only as a Democrat, reflecting Jefferson and Jackson, could justice ever be done the people because, at this moment in history, ours is the only party which is even faintly responsive to the force of ideas.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  Country, Real, Party

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• The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.

  Adolf Hitler

  Moving, Media, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.

  Jefferson Davis

  People, Religion, Age

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

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Morning, Night, Bed

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• I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.

  Angela Lansbury

  Running, Book, Apology

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• Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

  Iain Banks

  Player, Years, Gone

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Interview with Michael Parsons, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

  John Bercow

  Running, Long, House

  "John Bercow says he is ready for the Speaker's role" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2009.

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• 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.

  Marsha Blackburn

  War, Winning, Iraq

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• Gentlemen never wear brown in London.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  London, Brown

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• There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

  Len Goodman

  Winning, Want

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• Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Science

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• It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

  David Foster Wallace

  Business, Real, Cowboy

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