Gentleman Quotes - Page 37

• Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

  John Dryden

  Reading, Half, Clown

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• The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Veneer, Mahogany

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.55

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• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Indulge In, Clothes, Vices

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• Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the meeting is sufficient to paralyze conversation. The women invariably herd together at one part of the room, and the men at the other ... The gentlemen spit, talk of elections and the price of produce, and spit again. The ladies look at each other's dresses till they know every pin by heart.

  Frances Trollope

  Heart, Men, Together

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• Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then indeed the whole of National Socialism has been in vain. To the contrary, in my opinion one should bury bronze plates on which it is recorded that we have had the courage to carry out this great and so necessary work.

  Odilo Globocnik

  Tasks, Generations, Opinion

  "God, Greed, and Genocide: The Holocaust through the Centuries" by Arthur Grenke, (p. 101), 2005.

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• The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wine, Glasses, Bed

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• A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.

  Fanny Jackson Coppin

  Respect, Thinking, Wish

  Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• My brother is not a girl, he is a
  gentleman.

  Melanie Marquez

  Girl, Brother, My Brother

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• Kim Jong Il made his staff call him “dear” and spent the day drinking cognac. It's like I have a twin, ladies and gentlemen.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Cognac, Kim

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• I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an American.

  David Letterman

  Believe, Republican, Democrat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

  Eddie Murphy

  People, Fifty, Leisure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that'll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Faces, Throwing

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• My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.

  Jane Pauley

  Mother, Father, Parent

  "Pauley: 'I was suffering from bipolar disorder'". "Today" with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Feelings, Mind, Doe

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• The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Exercise, Cheater, Play

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• As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Decay, Evidence, Former

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• Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

  Arthur Wimperis

  Men, Eating, Propose

  "Fictional character: Carol Beldon". "Mrs. Miniver", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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• It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.567, Modern Library

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• [writing to Stirling in 1740]
  ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they were shewing French gallantry to the natives' wives, who have murdered their servants destroyed their instruments and burnt their papers, the Gentlemen escaping narrowly themselves. What an ugly article this will make in a journal.

  Colin Maclaurin

  Writing, Escaping, Wife

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• How would I treat a girl if she was my girlfriend? I`m a really affectionate person and I like being a gentleman.

  Omarion

  Girl, Treats, Affectionate

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• Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, House, Virtue

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• The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Opportunity, Men, White Man

  Interview with Ralph McGill, as quoted in "The Atlantic Monthly", November 1965.

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• In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to the sort of cunning incompatible with any kind of idealism.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Country, Europe, Entrepreneur

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Self, Temptation

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.

  Beau Brummell

  Etiquette

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