Gentleman quotes
747 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down."
"Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman."
"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."
"I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him."
"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't."
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"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
"Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere."
"Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman."
"I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman."
"A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences."
"A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do."
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."
"Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman."
"I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours."
"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
"And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you."
"Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts."
"A gentleman is not disturbed by anything"
"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."
"I am at heart a gentleman."
"Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color."
"You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you."
"A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value."
"If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman."
"A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."
