Quotes and Sayings About Gentleman
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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
-- Abba Louisa Goold WoolsonSource : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 115), 1886.
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Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.
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I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.
-- Albert RosenfeldSource : "Fictional character: Albert Rosenfeld". "Twin Peaks". Season 1, Episode 4, April 26, 1990.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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A true gentleman never leaves his lady.
-- Alessandro Del PieroSource : "Goodbye Mr Juventus" by Luca Cetta, www.football-italia.net. May 23, 2012.
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Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.
-- Alex SalmondSource : FaceBook post by Alex Salmond from Mar 03, 2015
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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
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If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.
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Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".
-- Ambrose Bierce -
PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.
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So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.
-- Andrew Sean GreerSource : Andrew Sean Greer (2013). “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells”, p.162, Faber & Faber
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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
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Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.
-- Anita Loos -
Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.
-- Anita Loos -
It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.
-- Anita Loos -
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It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.
-- Anna GodbersenSource : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Secret History of the Pink Carnation”, p.232, Allison & Busby
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
-- Anna Kendrick -
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.
-- Anna Letitia BarbauldSource : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes”, p.17
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I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
-- Anna Quindlen -
You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And you're such a gentleman.""Not with you, love. But I'm trying.
-- Anne Stuart -
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
-- Anthony Trollope -
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
-- Anthony Trollope