Gentleman Quotes - Page 17

• Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

  Gustave Flaubert

  Science, Thinking, Names

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

  Warren Spahn

  Baseball, Feet, Firsts

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• Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Attitude, Ostriches, Rejection

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• It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

  Washington Irving

  Children, Home, Parent

  Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, History

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  You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.

  Tom Ford

  Life, People, World

  Interview with Jefferson Hack, www.anothermanmag.com. June 7, 2017.

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• Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his weapons. If a gentleman dislikes strategy he will not appreciate the benefit of weaponry, so must he not have a little taste for this?

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Appreciate, Benefits

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.10, Bottom of the Hill

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• Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Prayer, Moving

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• My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

  Jamie Foxx

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Southern

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• The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Memories, Government

  Speech in reply to Mr Dundas, in T. Moore 'Life of Sheridan' (1825) 2, 471

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• We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Drinking, Mean

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.425, GENERAL PRESS

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• A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

  Jack Dempsey

  Tombstone, Men, Gentle

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• Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Islands, Justice, Diversity

  Benjamin Disraeli's remarks during Disraeli-O'Connell debate in Parliament, www.victorianweb.org. 1835.

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• The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

  Confucius

  Life, Education, Learning

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• Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, "Box about: twill come to my father anon."

  John Aubrey

  Fathers Day, Son, Blow

  'Brief Lives' 'Sir Walter Raleigh'

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• Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

  William Howard Taft

  Golf, Men, Self

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

  Brander Matthews

  Education, Latin, Humorous

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• Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

  Oscar Wilde

  Football, Games, Barbarians

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• I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Badass, Bad Ass, Moose

  "The Speech That Saved Teddy Roosevelt’s Life" by Patricia O’Toole, www.smithsonianmag.com. November 2012.

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• Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. In fact, we found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

  Erez Lieberman Aiden

  Technology, Internet, Found

  "What we learned from 5 million books". TEDxBoston Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.

  Paul G. Hoffman

  Lying, Men, People

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• Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Victory, World

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• Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Beer, Names, Letters

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• The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

  Gary Larson

  Brain, Mammals, Climate

  Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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