Gentleman Quotes - Page 26

• The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

  Confucius

  Men, Doe, Attention

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

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• Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

  Anita Loos

  Brunette, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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• Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Men, Disaster

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• Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.

  Alex Salmond

  Real, Legends, Tough

  FaceBook post by Alex Salmond from Mar 03, 2015

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• A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Preference, True Gentleman

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• A gentleman can never have too many bow ties.

  Justin Timberlake

  Ties, Bows, Bow Tie

  "Watch Justin Timberlake Tear Up Onstage After Getting Sweet Gift From A Young Fan" By Kimberly Yam, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2014.

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• This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

  George Sanders

  Cad

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• I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.

  Juno Temple

  Men, Thinking, Sin City

  "Juno Temple Talks HORNS, SIN CITY 2 and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES at Sundance" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

  Eric Stoltz

  Taken, Years, Propriety

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• A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

  Confucius

  Deeds, Ashamed, Outrun

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

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• Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Stupid, Intelligence Services

  Address to the United Nations Security Council, delivered 5 February 2003

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• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

  O. Henry

  New York, Greatness, Dresses

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.660, Delphi Classics

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• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Feelings, Experience, Directors

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• You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And you're such a gentleman.""Not with you, love. But I'm trying.

  Anne Stuart

  Love, Self, Age

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• What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder.

  Lester Cole

  Men, Mind, Looks

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• A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

  Confucius

  Responsibility, Demand, True Gentleman

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• The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

  Edmund Burke

  Hope, Shadow, Desire

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.169

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• Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Answers, Propaganda, Ready

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• Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Mistake, Self

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.597, Xist Publishing

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• I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Past, Men

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• Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Enterprise, Repeats

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• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fall, Curiosity, Rising

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

  Henry James

  Loyalty, Country, School

  'Hawthorne' (1879)

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• Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity
  are not much more numerous than the planets.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, May, Assembly

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1882). “Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield”

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• The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Father, Use, Young

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.49, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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