Gentleman Quotes - Page 28

• I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

  Clement Attlee

  Decision, Political, Politics

  Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”

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• Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Justice, Hypocrisy, Envy

  c.1874 Letter.

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• I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws in order to protect their fortunes. I also know they have no compassion for the masses of the people in this country who are without money and who are, many of them, without food or houses. I have always thought that only as a Democrat, reflecting Jefferson and Jackson, could justice ever be done the people because, at this moment in history, ours is the only party which is even faintly responsive to the force of ideas.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  Country, Real, Party

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• The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.

  Adolf Hitler

  Moving, Media, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.

  Jefferson Davis

  People, Religion, Age

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• It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Morning, Night, Bed

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• I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.

  Angela Lansbury

  Running, Book, Apology

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• Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

  Iain Banks

  Player, Years, Gone

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Interview with Michael Parsons, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

  John Bercow

  Running, Long, House

  "John Bercow says he is ready for the Speaker's role" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2009.

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• This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.

  Marsha Blackburn

  War, Winning, Iraq

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• Gentlemen never wear brown in London.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  London, Brown

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• There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

  Len Goodman

  Winning, Want

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• Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Science

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• It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

  David Foster Wallace

  Business, Real, Cowboy

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• The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

  Karel Capek

  Sports, Honesty, Silence

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• The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Language, Wealth

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• This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.

  John Kasich

  Country, Children, President

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• My dog's a gentleman.

  Todd Phillips

  Dog, My Dog

  "Director Todd Phillips Interview DUE DATE and THE HANGOVER 2". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 28, 2010.

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• I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

  Justin Bieber

  Nice, Thinking, What Matters

  "Justin Bieber: My mom is my Valentine". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 11, 2010.

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• The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

  D. A. Carson

  Play, Evil, Doe

  D. A. Carson (2006). “How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil”, p.57, Baker Academic

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• Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Greek, Stamps

  'Major Barbara' (1907) act 1

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• I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Work, Hero

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• Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.

  A. P. Herbert

  Lonely, Children, Golf

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• At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Next, Size

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