Quotes on Gentleman

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

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.

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

The gentleman is a man of truth.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.

Of all the fair resort of gentlemen_x000D_ _x000D_ That every day with parle encounter me,_x000D_ _x000D_ In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.