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Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.
I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.
America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.
Golf is a game with morals. There's always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That's why it's a gentleman's game.
I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
How would I treat a girl if she was my girlfriend? I`m a really affectionate person and I like being a gentleman.
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.
How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.
Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!
If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.
I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.
The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)
A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.
I've never given my phone number to someone on the street, but when someone is a gentleman, I appreciate the compliments.
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!
All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.
Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.