Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Military Quotes, Gentleman Quotes

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Military Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

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

You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , People Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Degrees Quotes

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Men Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Gentle Quotes

I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Giving Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Pay Quotes

My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Gentleman Quotes , Masters Quotes

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!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Sheep Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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

The devil is a gentleman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Evil Quotes , Gentleman Quotes