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Gentleman Quotes (page 5)

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad." - Atticus Finch Harper Lee
The side whiskers indeed were quite handsome. But he stroked them so very zealously that looking at him, one might very well think that first just the side whiskers had been brought into the world, and then later the gentleman was attached to them in order to stroke them. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love, whom to castigate. Barbara Kingsolver
Confucius quote: "In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not..."
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
Oscar Wilde quote: "The English country gentleman galloping after the fox? the..."
The English country gentleman galloping after the fox? the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Oscar Wilde
Tom Waits quote: "A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't."
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. Tom Waits
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear. E. M. Forster
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short,... Elizabeth Gaskell
The silly ass had left the kitchen door open, and I hadn't gone two steps when his voice caught me squarely in the eardrum.'You will find Mr Wooster', he was saying to the substitue chappie, 'an extremely pleasant and amiable young gentleman, but not intelligent. By no means intelligent. Mentally he is negligible - quite negligible'. Well, I mean to say. What! I suppose, strictly speaking, I ought to have charged in and ticked the blighter off properly in no uncertain voice. But I doubht... P. G. Wodehouse
What is your name?"Again sir, that is no concern of yours."A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda."....."Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?"Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda. Georgette Heyer
Benjamin Franklin quote: "A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees"
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees Benjamin Franklin
Sting quote: "a gentleman will walk but never run..it takes a man to suffer..."
a gentleman will walk but never run..it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile..be yourself no matter what they say.. Sting
Charles Dickens quote: "I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for..."
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. Charles Dickens
And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope. C. S. Lewis
Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own. Beatrix Potter

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