Gentleman Quotes - Page 32

• Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!
  Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
  Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
  Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, War, Archer

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Isaac Reed (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III”, p.487

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• When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Men, Views

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Giving, Pirate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Struggle, Air

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• Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don't just offer it. Follow through.

  Mila Kunis

  Girl, Chivalry, Drink

  "Jim Beam & Mila Kunis". Interview with Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com. February 25, 2014.

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• I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Years, Play

  Source: www.sportsnet.ca

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• The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Nice, Ideas

  Taxes and Morals, delivered 22 January 1906, New York

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• Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.

  Bob Backlund

  Men, World, Rings

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• "Ladies and Gentlemen, we're about to begin boarding. If we could ask for your cooperation, please stay seated until you row has been called." ... That's what they say - but somehow, by the time it comes out of the speaker, it sounds like, "Everybody up and rush the door! Everybody up and try to squeeze your big fat butts in the small gate door area! Immediately! ... Do whatever you have to do to get on board. This is the last helicopter out of Vietnam!"

  Brian Regan

  Funny, Doors, Trying

  Interview with Paul Harris, paulharrisonline.blogspot.ru. May 20, 1996.

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• Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Father, Embarrassing, Hopefully

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I think it's becoming rarer and rarer when I consider the experiences that I've had in my life between my dad and my brother and all the men in my life who have all been gentlemen and have looked after women.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Brother, Dad, Men

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I don't like giving a gift just to cross the person off my list. They don't have to be extravagant or expensive things, they can be simple. Just helping my neighbor hang his lights was a great gift for me to give. He was an older gentleman who was having trouble putting up his lights, and it made me feel good to be able to help him.

  Peter Facinelli

  Simple, Light, Giving

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

  Henri Rousseau

  Men, Religion, Atheism

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• Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

  Daniel Defoe

  England, Peers, Rakes

  Daniel Defoe (1855). “The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe”, p.443

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• Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

  Robert A. Burton

  Art, Food, Science

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• When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He . . . had heard that Mr. Duche . . . deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche . . . might be desired to read prayers to the Congress . . . . After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.

  John Adams

  Country, Prayer, Character

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• Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.

  Daniel Webster

  Stars, Character, Names

  Daniel Webster (1860). “The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of Daniel Webster, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address”, p.432

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• Takes more than combat gear to make a man
  Takes more than a license for a gun
  Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
  A gentleman will walk but never run

  Sting

  Running, Gun, Men

  Song: Englishman in New York

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• It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.

  John Paul Jones

  Mean, Honor, Attention

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• I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.

  James Buchanan

  Gone, Wooing

  James Buchanan, James Buchanan Henry (1909). “The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence”

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• I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Elderly, Personality

  "Sigmund Says: And Other Psychotherapists' Quotes" edited by Bernard Nisenholz, (p. 6), 2006.

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• A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

  John Gay

  World, Rogues, Dear God

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.59, OUP Oxford

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• All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.

  John Bingham

  Law, Land, Parent

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• The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

  David Lloyd

  Pride, People, Clerks

  Speech in Limehouse, East London, on July 30, 1909. The Times, p. 9, July 31, 1909.

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• Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Blessed, Hands, Age

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

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