Confucius Quotes, Gentleman Quotes, World Quotes

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , World Quotes

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Profanity Quotes

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , May Quotes

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Desire Quotes

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Apparel Quotes

When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al B. Sure! Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Tea Quotes

A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Wish Quotes

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Making Money Quotes

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Noise Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Church Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Deeds Quotes

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Men Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Real Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Opposites Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , People Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Games Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Eternity Quotes