It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.
My dog's a gentleman.
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.
We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.
Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.
Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.
Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?
A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. “And a scoundrel would have joined you. ” -- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)
Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his weapons. If a gentleman dislikes strategy he will not appreciate the benefit of weaponry, so must he not have a little taste for this?
My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are. ’
The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.
I was always the Southern gentleman.
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.
Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on. . . none of you are safe.
A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.
A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.