Gentleman Quotes - Page 15

• Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.

  Dan Brown

  Computer, Invaders, Worms

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• If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Four

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• JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

  Oscar Wilde

  Degrees, Pleasure, Duty

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.38, Heinemann

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• I know that asshole you were with in college --” “Can we leave that asshole out of it?” Please, gentlemen, one asshole at a time.

  Josh Lanyon

  College, Please, Knows

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• * to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silly, Writing, Gay

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• I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Flower, Pride

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• Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

  Beatrix Potter

  Cat, Sunday, Two

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• Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. " Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand.

  Loretta Chase

  Cutting, Hands, Voice

  Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.194, Penguin

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• Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

  Diane Arbus

  Ice, Pants, Slides

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• Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sweet, Eye, Bows

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• And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

  Franz Kafka

  Hands, Way, Resistance

  Franz Kafka (2008). “Metamorphosis and Other Stories”, Penguin Classics

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• I could point out that that's not a dress, that's underwear, but I doubt it would be in my best interest." "Need I remind you," said Sebastian, "That that is my sister?" "Most brother's would be delighted to see such a clean-cut gentleman as myself squiring their sister's about town.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Cutting, Doubt

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2070, Simon and Schuster

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• I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Rose, May, Chairs

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.8, Zillmann Publishing

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• Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss

  Heather Brewer

  Genius, Littles, Tacos

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• It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

  E. M. Forster

  Distance, Ears, Beard

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

  Emily Post

  Junk, Doe, Boast

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• The tannoy is crackling but I can only hear heavy breathing and snuffling. ... Uh-oh, the tannoy is crackling again. "Sorry about that, ladies and gentlemen, I momentarily lost hold of my pie.

  Louise Rennison

  Sorry, Breathing, Pie

  Louise Rennison (2012). “A Midsummer Tights Dream (The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey, Book 2)”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell

  Harry Styles

  Kissing

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• She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

  Harper Lee

  Jobs, Mad, Ill

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.

  Terry Pratchett

  Tasks, Taxation, Milk

  Terry Pratchett (2013). “Jingo: Stage Adaptation”, p.17, A&C Black

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• Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.

  Scott Lynch

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.181, Del Rey

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• It has always seemed to me that if one falls in love with any gentleman one becomes instantly blind to his faults.But I am not blind to your faults, and I do not think that everything you do or say is right! Only—Is it being—not very comfortable—and cross—and not quite happy, when you aren’t there?” “That, my darling,” said his lordship,taking her ruthlessly into his arms,“is exactly what it s!” “Oh—!” Frederica gasped, as she emerged from an embrace which threatened to suffocate her. “Now I know! I am in love!

  Georgette Heyer

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Arms

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• A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. “And a scoundrel would have joined you.” -- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)

  Karen Chance

  Joining, Tubs, Sides

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• If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment! When can I see you?” “Certainly not until you finish An Imperial Affliction.” I enjoyed being coy. “Then I’d better hang up and start reading.” “You’d better,” I said, and the line clicked dead without another word. Flirting was new to me, but I liked it.

  John Green

  Reading, Eye, Flirting

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Running, Country

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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