Gentleman Quotes - Page 13

• I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

  Anne Rice

  Halloween, Heart, Rose

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.699, Ballantine Books

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• Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

  Bob Dylan

  Get Up, Passing, Passings

  Song: Things Have Changed, Album: The Essential Bob Dylan, 2000

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• Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Knowing

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• No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

  Jane Austen

  Dream, Falling In Love, Love Is

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.440, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Farewell, Doe

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• This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Reality, Land

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• ..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Four

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• Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.

  Susanna Clarke

  Men, Magic, Honor

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.389, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Knowledge, Science

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.185 (first published 1891).

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• Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Aunt, Greatness

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

  Harper Lee

  Broken, Guilt, Our Society

  Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”

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• I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Son, Fighting

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance.

  Susanna Clarke

  Swallowing, Substance, Bogs

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.602, A&C Black

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• And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Cutting, Scratches

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• There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

  Harper Lee

  Country, Stupid, College

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 20 (1960)

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• But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage." Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again.

  Libba Bray

  Kissing, Hands, Magic

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Stupid, Believe, Mean

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• It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

  Anita Loos

  Blonde, Looks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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  Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

  Louis Pasteur

  Lasts, Microbes, Last Words

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• A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Play, Banjos

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• But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

  Anna Quindlen

  Feminism, Busy, Never Fear

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.122, Random House

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• Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

  Tamora Pierce

  Call Me

  Tamora Pierce (2015). “Wild Magic”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Twists, Pockets

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.128, GENERAL PRESS

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• You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Christian, Mother, Father

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.236, Diversion Books

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• I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Sickness, Conscious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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