Gentleman Quotes
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"A gentleman leaves no puzzle unsolved"
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More Gentleman Quotes
An affable and courteous gentleman.
william shakespeare— The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 2, line 98.
"I've done you a piece of good service, Nancy," he began: then seeing me, he acknowledged my presence by a slight bow. I should have been invisible to Hatfield, or any other gentleman of those parts. "I've delivered your cat," he continued, "from the hands, or rather the gun, of Mr. Murray's gamekeeper."
anne brontë— Ch. XII : The Shower
To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man, — no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough.
william croswell doane— Address at Burlington College, reported in Horace Mann, The Common School Journal (1847), p. 191.
The next good quality belonging to a gentleman, is good breeding [manners]. There are two sorts of ill-breeding : the one a sheepish bashfulness , and the other a mis-becoming negligence and disrespect in our carriage ; both of which are avoided by duly observing this one rule, not to think meanly of ourselves, and not to think meanly of others .
john locke— Sec. 141 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times.Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort of attire for a gentleman.
Tom (Thomas Ridley) Sharpe— 1974 Porterhouse Blue, ch.9.
A legal gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it himself.
— His definitionof a lawyer. Quoted in Richard Fountain The Wit of the Wig (1968).
I was ne’er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.
thomas dekker— The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Zounds! I was never so bethump’d with words, Since I first call’d my brother’s father dad", William Shakespeare, King John, Act ii. Sc. 2.
So far you have been treated as an officer and a gentleman, but don't think that this will go on if you don't behave better than you have done. You have two hours left in which to confess everything. If you don't, I shall hand you over to the Gestapo, who are used to dealing with such gangsters and criminals — you won't enjoy their methods a bit.
reinhard heydrich— To Captain Sigismund Payne Best, as quoted in The Venlo Incident (1950) by Sigismund Payne Best, p. 41
The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris—or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.
jeff vandermeer— "Dradin, In Love", Ch. 4, p. 48
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task."
samuel johnson— July 21, 1763, p. 126.
Sir Walter, being strangely supprized and putt out of his countenance at so great a Table, gives his son a damned blow over the face; his son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face of the gentleman that sate next to him, and sayed, Box about, 'twill come to my Father anon. 'Tis now a common used Proverb.
john aubrey— "Sir Walter Raleigh"
He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat, With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought.
Robert Byron— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto 3, stanza 41.
[Travel] preservesmy young noblemanfromsurfeiting of hisparents,andweanshimfroma dangerousfondness of his mother. It teacheth him wholesome hardship? Whereas the country gentleman that never travelled, can scarce go to London without making his will, at least without wetting his handkerchief.
Richard Lassels— c.1650 The Voyage of Italy, or a Compleat Journey through Italy (published1670).
He's a gentleman: look at his boots.
George Bernard Shaw— 1913 Bystander. Pygmalion, act1.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
william congreve— Act V, scene iii.
Ewald von Kleist was an officer and a gentleman in an era when such characteristics were liabilities.
paul ludwig ewald von kleist— Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., in Hitler's Generals (2003)
He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.
Robert Smith Surtees— Ch. 24 (Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853))
They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
otto von bismarck— Talking to Gyula Andrássy in Salzburg on 18 September 1877. As quoted in Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Eastern Question. A Study in Diplomacy and Party Politics (1935) by Robert William Seton-Watson, p. 224 books.google; "Schlaukopf" is translated elsewhere as "clever dick" or "smart aleck."They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to deal with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.As quoted in Prime Minister Gyula Andrássy's influence on Habsburg foreign policy during the Franco-German War of 1870-1871 (1979) by János Decsy, p. 21 books.google
It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.
henry george— Book I, Ch. 3
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
john locke— Sec. 94 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
Some few sublime and hot-headed gentleman muttered the word “impeachment.” Others, who were more practical and less dignified, suggested that the Prime Minister “ought to have his head punched.”
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 37 (Phineas Redux (1874))
The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent, just and amiable, perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be ever the great employment and concern of him who covets as well to be wise and good, as agreeable and polite.
— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), "Miscellany III".
As for gentlemen, they be made good cheap in this kingdom; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the Universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and (to be short) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
— Sir Thomas Smith, Commonwealth of England, b. 1, c. 20; Steph. Com., Vol. 2 (9th ed.), 619; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 51, n. 4.
In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.
— O. Henry, Defeat of the City. In The Voice of the City.
The discussion of the -- of the volcanoes, the explosions, the Galactic confederation 75 million years ago, and a gentleman by the name Xemu there. Those are not trade secrets.
— Warren McShane, then-president of Religious Technology Center, in civil action no. 95-B-2143, (1995) Religious Technology Center v. F.A.C.T.Net, Inc., et al., U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Proceedings before the Honorable John L. Kane on September 11, 1995.
There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust.
— Duncan, Scene IV
The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. gentleman (David Cameron) may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist.
gordon brown— Hansard, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 453, col. 29 (15 November 2006)
— Tony Blair, speaking in the House of Commons; the term 'big clunking fist' was taken as a reference to Brown.
