Gentleman Quotes - Page 9

• The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Malls, Written

  'Pendennis' (1848-50) ch. 32

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• I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Taken, Feet, Comfort

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• In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

  Beatrix Potter

  Gold, Ruffles, Coats

  Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 9

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• I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Stupid, Years, Want

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• Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.

  S. E. Hinton

  Eye, Glowing, Southern

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.98, Penguin

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• You say the gentleman I knew has been replaced. How I wish I could offer better comfort than to say that no matter how you have changed, you wil be welcomed when you return. Do what you must. If it helps you to endure, put the feelings away for now, and lock the door. Perhaps someday we'll air them out together.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Air, Doors, Feelings

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• Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Simple, Numbers, Noble

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.63, Vintage

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• A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Teacher, Men, Might

  Jane Feather, Sabrina Jeffries, Julia London (2008). “Snowy Night with a Stranger”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Taming, Shrews, Tails

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.208, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.

  Caitlin Kittredge

  Kind

  Caitlin Kittredge (2011). “The Iron Thorn The Iron Codex Book One”, p.157, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.

  Albert Rosenfeld

  Cutting, Return, Twin Peaks

  "Fictional character: Albert Rosenfeld". "Twin Peaks". Season 1, Episode 4, April 26, 1990.

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• All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with - and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Real, Government

  Harry S. Truman (1966). “Good old Harry: the wit and wisdom of Harry S. Truman”

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• Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

  William Wordsworth

  Brother, Community, Scholar

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 9, l. 227

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• I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Long, People, Giving

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.5, Whitaker House

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• The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Foundation, Cost, Pedants

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.123

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• A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Character, Exercise

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.393, Delphi Classics

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• One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, Men, Steel

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• Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

  Bill Vaughan

  House, President, Clay

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• My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’

  Steve Sabol

  Father, Used, Treats

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• Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1968). “Disraeli: Speech at the Banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, at the Crystal Palace, on June 24, 1872. Rede Im Kristallpalast Am 24 Juni 1872”

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• You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Men, Political

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• One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I have not had a regular job for years, is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out the jobs to individuals who think as they do. It is not just a question of my appearance, which is what they have sanctimoniously reproached me with. It goes deeper, I do assure you.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.129, Parkstone International

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• I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. Finally, I really got to this kind of level and I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Remember You, Remembers You

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• I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Sweet, Thoughtful, Japan

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by the obviously unpremeditated words of a great biologist; Alfred Kuhn finished a lecture to the Austrian Academy of Science with Goethe 's words, "It is the greatest joy of the man of thought to have explored the explorable and then calmly to revere the inexplorable." After the last word he hesitated, raised his hand in repudiation and cried, above the applause, "No, not calmly, gentlemen; not calmly!

  Konrad Lorenz

  Attitude, Real, Men

  "On Aggression". Book by Konrad Lorenz, Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility, 1963.

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