Gentleman Quotes - Page 33

• The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

  Confucius

  Men, Small Man, Profitable

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• A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wife, Unhappy, Triumph

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.40

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• Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

  William Osler

  Errors, Half, Taught

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• I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.

  Lindsey Graham

  Strong, War, Winning

  "Republican Candidates "Undercard" Debate in Boulder, Colorado". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 28, 2015.

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• The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man of Heaven is a gentleman among men; the gentleman among men is the petty man of Heaven.

  Burton Watson

  Men, Heaven, Said

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.87, Columbia University Press

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• The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.

  William L. Marcy

  New York, Successful, Practice

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• If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.

  Barbara Eden

  Blonde, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Men

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• Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Skills, Ill Will

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3108, Delphi Classics

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• As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dog, Men, Law

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• Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

  Nathan Hale

  Fighting, Independence, Liberty

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• Every student must be a gentleman.

  Robert E. Lee

  Students

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• All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking

  Muhammad Ali

  Girl, Nice, Boys

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• Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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• You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Holiday, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• I do not accept drinks from disapproving gentlemen.

  Holly Golightly

  Drink, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Accepting

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• Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are.

  Ed Sabol

  Treats

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• Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament...take a very good look because there's an imposter running around...if someone comes up to you and says he's Jeff Ament and says he wants to take your pot or wants to take you to a strip club, it's probably not him.

  Eddie Vedder

  Running, Real, Florida

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• Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.

  Anita Loos

  Sex, Men, Opposites

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.

  David Bowie

  Queens, Real, Boys

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• David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Ideas, Iconography

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• A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Sacrifice, Firsts

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• Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Play, Billiards, Wells

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• Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Running, Thinking

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• East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave a house, and gave him permission to live in Walden Woods;MCato, not Uticensis, but Concordiensis. Some say that he was a Guinea Negro. There are a few who remember his little patch among the walnuts, which he let grow up till he should be old and need them; but a younger and whiter speculator got them at last. He too, however, occupies an equally narrow house at present.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Growing Up, House, East

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