Gentleman Quotes - Page 18

• A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Funny, Law, Enemy

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• If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.

  Confucius

  Loyalty, Mistake, No Friends

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• Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

  John le Carre

  Loyalty, Liars, Criminals

  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963).

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• He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Military, Officers

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.174, 谷月社

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• When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

  May Sarton

  Moving, Cat, Doe

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• We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.

  Sandra Fluke

  Badass, Choices, Wells

  Sandra Fluke's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source of force, namely will. How then can we help regarding the forces we see in nature as due to the will of some omnipresent, omnipotent being? Gentlemen, there must be a GOD.

  Benjamin Peirce

  God, Nature, Science

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• If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

  George Bernard Shaw

  May, Produce, Impression

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• Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Perfect, Soldier, Enemy

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• You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Respect, Money, Honesty

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• Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Kitchen, Ladies And Gentlemen

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knaves, Wealth, Easy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.213

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• To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.

  Hermione Gingold

  Dog, Loss, Perfect

  Hermione Gingold (1958). “The world is square”

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• I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Mother, Acquisition

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• According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  God, Moving, Wind

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• The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

  Isaac Asimov

  Eye, Science, Facts

  "Fact and Fancy". Book by Isaac Asimov, p. 11, 1962.

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• Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Truth, Mean, Science

  "Benjamin Peirce, 1809-1880 : Biographical Sketch and Bibliography". Book by R. C. Archibald, 1925.

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• In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.

  Louis Pasteur

  Moving, Memorable, Science

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• Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

  Robin Williams

  Philosophy, Needs, Lennon

  "Fictional character: Dale Putley". "Fathers' Day", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Years, Research

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• We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.

  Benjamin Guggenheim

  Bad Ass, Titanic Movie, Prepared

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• Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

  Kevin Rudd

  Jobs, Believe, Sadness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

  Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

  Military, World, May

  Said before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, in G. L. Newnham Collingwood (ed.) 'A Selection from the Correspondence of Lord Collingwood' (1828) vol. 1, p. 168

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• I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Attitude, Latin

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.167

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• There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

  Maria Jane McIntosh

  Character, Principles, Doe

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