Gentleman Quotes - Page 8

• He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Equal

  "Complete Works of Jane Austen".

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• Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?

  Marcel Proust

  August, Littles, Toes

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2149, Delphi Classics

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• You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Daughter, Thinking

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.37, Hamilton Books

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• In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

  Confucius

  World, Sides, Moral

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

  Anna Godbersen

  Life, Dark, Boys

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.76, Harper Collins

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• Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.

  Gail Carriger

  Strong, Opposites, Fruit Juice

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• What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Support, Age

  Henrik Ibsen (2009). “An Enemy of the People: A Play in Five Acts”, p.150, The Floating Press

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• Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.

  Barbara Mertz

  Men, Pay, Difficult

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• ... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces

  John Kennedy Toole

  Dog, New Orleans, Golden Days

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.349, LSU Press

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• Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Drunk, Mad, Perfect

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Girl, Father, Differences

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.29, Chosen Books

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• Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Fall, Space, People

  "Sophie's World". Book by Jostein Gaarder, thequietus.com. 2010.

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• Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

  Sarah Waters

  Voice

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Affinity”, p.229, Penguin

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• No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Animal, Men

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• Works for me. For the ones we love, today we’re allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Order, Enemy, Allies

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.268, Macmillan

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• RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply huge, operatic voice, a diminutive powerhouse who prowled the stage like a feline elf and who was, it turns out, also finely intelligent and well spoken, an actual gentleman in a genre known all too well for its bombastic, monosyllabic doltbuckets. A rare thing indeed.

  Mark Morford

  Eye, Intelligent, Voice

  "All kneel before the devil horns". www.sfgate.com. May 19, 2010.

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• It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Life, Sweet, Peace

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Taken, Feet, Comfort

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• In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

  Beatrix Potter

  Gold, Ruffles, Coats

  Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 9

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• I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Stupid, Years, Want

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• Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.

  S. E. Hinton

  Eye, Glowing, Southern

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.98, Penguin

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• You say the gentleman I knew has been replaced. How I wish I could offer better comfort than to say that no matter how you have changed, you wil be welcomed when you return. Do what you must. If it helps you to endure, put the feelings away for now, and lock the door. Perhaps someday we'll air them out together.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Air, Doors, Feelings

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• Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Simple, Numbers, Noble

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.63, Vintage

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• A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Teacher, Men, Might

  Jane Feather, Sabrina Jeffries, Julia London (2008). “Snowy Night with a Stranger”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Taming, Shrews, Tails

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.208, Cengage Learning EMEA

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