Gentleman Quotes - Page 27

• That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government. There are defects in his character which must inevitably continue to do this more and more. And if he is supported by the federal party, his party must in the issue fall with him.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Party, Fall, Character

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• If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Jesus, Biographies

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• Ladies and Gentlemen, King of the Stupid Question: Todd Grisham!

  John Cena

  Kings, Stupid, Wwe

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• Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS.

  Wade Barrett

  Wwe, News, Ladies And Gentlemen

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• Wait a minute. You expect me to stay overnight in a house with four single men? Sean grinned. We're perfect gentlemen, Kim. Everyone knows that. Don't let us worry you. I'm not worried about my reputation, I'm worried about the state of the bathrooms.

  Jennifer Ashley

  Men, Perfect, Worry

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• When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Giving, Doe

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

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• Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Cold, Douches, Capitalism

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• Ladies and gentlemen, Im going to prove to you not only that Freddy Quimby is guilty, but that he is also innocent of not being guilty

  Lionel

  Guilty, Innocent, Prove

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• I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

  Martin Buber

  Peace, War, Advice

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• Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.

  John Hamill

  Scotland, Scottish, Accepted

  John Hamill (1986). “The Craft: A History of English Freemasonry”, HarperCollins

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• Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

  Victoria Wood

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Years

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• The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

  H. L. Mencken

  Facts, Communism, Communist

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.21, Knopf

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• You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Party, Government

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech in the House of Commons, August 30, 1848.

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• Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

  William Ernest Henley

  Sweet, Strong, Dark

  William Ernest Henley, “Before”

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• A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

  William Shakespeare

  Might, Pleasure, Swearing

  1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.

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• I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

  Brian McKnight

  Mean, Dresses, Walks

  "Celebrity Collector: Brian McKnight". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Believe, Reality

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 20 (1960)

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• Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Matter, Telling The Truth

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• Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

  Laozi

  Use, Arms, Weapons

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.47, Chinese University Press

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• Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Children, Pain, Play

  Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Eugène Labiche, Georges Courteline (pseud.) (1975). “Three popular French comedies”, Frederick Ungar

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• There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Home, Men, Pieces

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Devil, Sometimes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.239

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• The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Years, Democracy, Half

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• I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

  Aziz Ansari

  Cutting, Band, Slim

  "Questions for Aziz Ansari" by Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. August 12, 2011.

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• Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in history:-not accidentally, but necessarily; not at any particular epoch, but in all; in short, -what idea he is called to represent.

  Victor Cousin

  Country, Men, Wind

  Victor Cousin (1832). “Introduction to the History of Philosophy”, p.240

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