Quotes
Quotes about Gentleman
This earth that bears thee dead
Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.
A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
The gentleman is not in your books.
The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven.
The best of men
That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer;
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
I was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.
I cannot talk with civet in the room,
A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar
Showed him the gentleman and scholar.
The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."
The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice
I think I must take up with avarice.
The Right Honorable gentlemancaught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.
And thus he bore without abuse
The grand old name of gentleman,
Defamed by every charlatan,
And soiled with all ignoble use.
The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.
When Adam dolve, and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance."
I have travelled in books ... I have read of matters higher than where castles may be and whence a gentleman's name may come
