Gentleman Quotes - Page 38

• I'd like to name my kid a whole phrase. You know, something like Ladies and Gentlemen. That'll be a cool name for a kid. This is my son, Ladies and Gentlemen! Then, when he gets out of hand, I get to go, Ladies and Gentlemen, please!

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Kids, Son

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• From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Hair, White, Drawing

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

  Jean Plaidy

  Ignorance, My Love For You, Ifs

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• I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Obscurity, Height, Birth

  Oliver Cromwell (1860). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the First Edition with Elucidations”, p.110

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• Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by cannibals!" At last I replied, "Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms."

  John Gibson Paton

  Christian, Jesus, Years

  John Gibson Paton (1907). “John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907”

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• A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sitting, Pieces, Furniture

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• A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.

  Confucius

  Practice, Justice, Principles

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• He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Men, Careers

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• Gentleman, God created you with the heart of a warrior. Until there’s something you’re willing to die for, you can’t truly live.

  Craig Groeschel

  Heart, Warrior, Willing

  Craig Groeschel (2013). “Fight: Winning the Battles That Matter Most”, p.22, Zondervan

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• It's amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players.

  Jon Champion

  Player, Sight, Four

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• One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true your grandfather used to peddle tinware around here in an oxcart hauled by a donkey?" Lloyd George replied, "I digress just a moment and thank the gentlemen for calling that to my attention. It is true, my dear old grandfather used to peddle tinware with an old cart and a donkey. As a matter of fact, after this meeting is over, if my friend will come with me, I will show him that old cart, but I never knew until this minute what became of the ass."

  David Lloyd George

  Justice, Waiting, Political

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• About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.

  John Aubrey

  Love, Truth, Years

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• It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Beauty, Math, Science

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• QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beauty, Names, Excellence

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.285, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Military, Fields

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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• The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Time, Bees, Ifs

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.222

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• But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy

  Running, Writing, Blood

  Paul Simon, Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1964). “Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom”

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• This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.

  Michael Clarke

  Freak, Absolutes

  "World Twenty20: Mike Hussey and Australia pickpocket Pakistan" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010.

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• I've always known I'd be a bank robber. So judge all you want, ladies and gentlemen. Because you never did become an astronaut.

  Joey Comeau

  Judging, Want, Astronaut

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.

  Jason Evert

  Men, Class, Want

  Jason Evert, Crystalina Evert (2011). “How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women”, p.132, Totus Tuus Press

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• When a culture of ladies arises, a culture of gentlemen will follow.

  Jason Evert

  Culture, Arise

  Jason Evert, Crystalina Evert (2011). “How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women”, p.35, Totus Tuus Press

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• If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.

  Jan Masaryk

  Soul, Firsts, World

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• You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Interesting, Hats

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• A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

  Confucius

  Hate, Men, Feet

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

  Confucius

  Justice, Favors, Dirt

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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