Quotes of: Gentleman Keyword

When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.

Seduction of a Proper Gentleman

Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.

The Vesuvius Club

I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.

A Very Private Gentleman

One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.

Oscar Wilde

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

Thomas Day

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Lord Byron

My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

Vern Buchanan

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

Fisher Ames

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

Confucius

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

John Bercow

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

Billy Ray Valentine: Hey that's the motherf- I mean... that's the gentleman that had me busted.

Trading Places

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

Sharon Stone

Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.

Paul Mellon

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

Otis Blackwell

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

Randy Neugebauer

Bob: [knocks] Can I come in? Bernadette: Now, there's a gentleman. Of course you can, Bob.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

Ben Cross

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

William Ralph Inge