Gentleman Quotes - Page 4

• IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

  Robert Walpole

  Liberty, Should, Estates

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• We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

  Jack Cade

  Kings, Men, Law

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• It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, Hard Work, Eye

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• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  Caleb Cushing

  Looks, Done, Facts

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• I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

  George Combe

  Fear, Air, Alarms

  George Combe (1841). “Notes on the United States of North America: During a Phrenological Visit in 1838-9-40”, p.85

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• An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Fall, Chance

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.102, Penguin

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• I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

  Daisy Ashford

  Nice, Ifs, Ladies And Gentlemen

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• You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

  Johnny Vegas

  Women, Winning, Las Vegas

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• But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Regret, Behinds, Has Beens

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.417, Oxford University Press

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• I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Opposites, People, Crowns

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• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  Otis Blackwell

  Vegas, Publishing House, Fever

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• What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner? Ought a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Ought his life to be decent, his bills to be paid, his taste to be high and elegant, his aims in life lofty and noble?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Husband, Father

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “Contributions to Punch, Etc.”, p.311, Wildside Press LLC

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• The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

  Charles Dickens

  Sometimes

  "Children's Tales from Dickens – The Great Classics & The Wonderful Stories for Children".

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• The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

  Puzant Kevork Thomajan

  Defense, Tact, True Gentleman

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• There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Army, Navy, Seamen

  "History of England". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Volume I, Chapter III, Part XXXII, 1848.

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Men, Hats

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• I am at heart a gentleman.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Heart

  "Still modern after all these years ... Marlene Dietrich's ageless charisma" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2017.

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• A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Drawing, May

  Charles Kingsley (2016). “The Water Babies”, p.82, Charles Kingsley

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• It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Comeback, Hard

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

  Vince Gill

  Southern, Engagement, Southern Gentleman

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• It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

  John Henry Newman

  Life, Success, Pain

  'The Idea of a University' (1852) 'Knowledge and Religious Duty'

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Strikes, Provocation

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Humor, Heaven

  "A Little Book in C Major".

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• The devil is a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Devil, Good And Evil

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