Gentleman Quotes - Page 10

• Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.

  Anita Loos

  Dating, Remember, Seems

  Anita Loos (1925). “"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”

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• Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Years, Pounds, Twenties

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways”, p.83

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• I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation - to serve in parliaments, - and ( because I would not be over tedious ) I did endeavour to discharge the duty of an honest man in those services, to God, and his people's interest, and of the commonwealth; having, when time was, a competent acceptation in the hearts of men, and some evidence thereof.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Heart, Men, People

  Oliver Cromwell (1901). “Speeches, 1644-1658”

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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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• You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

  Ben Cross

  Jobs, Character, Meat

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• A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.

  Chris Murray

  Moving, Ambition, Doors

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• A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May, Beast, Lunatic

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• No gentleman ever has any money.

  Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.159, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hunting, America, Savages

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”

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• Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.

  Arthur Koestler

  Cutting, Reality, Imagination

  "A Challenge to 'Knights in Rusty Armor". The New York Times, February 14, 1943.

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• All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Jesus, Men, Good Man

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Brave, Soul, Noble

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Doe, Company, Thrown

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

  Hannah Arendt

  Dangerous

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• The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Ignorance, Government, Democracy

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.73, Verso

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• You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

  Clement Attlee

  Succeed, Boardwalk Empire, Judged

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• I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the People? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of the confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one of great consolidated National Government of the people of all the States.

  Patrick Henry

  Government, Giving, People

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• I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Doe, Coats, Matter

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Men, Morality, Truthful

  "Sleazy and Sinister Berlusconi Would Flick Through Pictures of Girls for Hire Then Say: I Want That One, Says the Writer He Tried to Destroy" by Tobias Jones, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 10, 2011.

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• I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

  Joseph Addison

  Quality, World, May

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.173

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• A gentleman is never in a hurry.

  Andre Maurois

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

  Mae West

  Girl, Women, Break Even

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Pirate, Trying, Half

  "Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Eastern Question. A Study in Diplomacy and Party Politics". Book by Robert William Seton-Watson, 1935.

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• Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.

  Frederic Chopin

  Flower, Simple, Enemy

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• It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.

  Henry George

  Tools, Use, Wealth

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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