Gentleman Quotes - Page 24

• Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

  Peter Lynch

  Missing, Investing, Knows

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• "Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Deception

  Charles Dickens (1905). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.541

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• Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Journey, Wings, Bishops

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.314

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• Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Doe, Way, Wealth

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “King Solomon's Mines”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for their university tuition or purchase massive fourth homes on private islands with helicopter landing pads. But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

  Miriam Toews

  Girl, Cousin, Children

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• I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear in the morning.

  Pete Stark

  Morning, Fall, Fighting

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• Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.

  Nelly Kaplan

  Long, Patriarchy, Ladies And Gentlemen

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• How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

  James Payn

  Educational, Judging, Bills

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

  Vincent Canby

  Clothes, Doctors, Long

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• I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

  Mollie King

  Flower, School, Doors

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• God is a gentleman.
  He prefers blondes

  Joe Orton

  Blonde

  Joe Orton (2014). “Loot”, p.97, A&C Black

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• Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.

  George Mason

  Political, Voting, Towns

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• We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sheep, Black, Gone

  "Gentlemen-Rankers" st. 1 (1892)

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• Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

  P. G. T. Beauregard

  War, Tomorrow, Waterloo

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• If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Pride, Men

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.757, Library of Alexandria

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• Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Education, Animal

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works: Deucalion. The king of the Golden River. The eagle's nest. Arrows of the chace”

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• Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Men, Law

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• Gentlemen, start your engines!

  Tony Hulman

  Racing, Engines

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• A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Ugly, Fine

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• Ladies and Gentlemen, if you have a friend who says he does not believe in conspiracy, look him straight in the eye and tell them that they are ignorant. 'I love you brother, I love you sister, but you are stupid.

  Texe W Marrs

  Brother, Stupid, Love You

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• Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Knowing, Perfect

  First team meeting as Packers coach in 1959. "Game of My Life: 25 Stories of Packers Football". Book by Chuck Carlson, p. 149, 2004.

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• The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.

  Confucius

  Courage, Men, Justice

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• The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in his looks he is careful to be kind, in his manner to be respectful, in his words to be sincere, in his work to be diligent. When in doubt he is careful to ask for information; when angry he has a care for the consequences; and when he sees a chance for gain, he thinks carefully whether the pursuits of it would be right.

  Confucius

  Caring, Thinking, Doubt

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• Make them think they've been fooled by a gentlemen.

  Howard Thurston

  Thinking, Magic, Fooled

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• A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.
  The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

  Confucius

  Men, Sides, Bias

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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