Quotes About Gentlemen

Excuse me, miss, but the young gentlemen say that you cannot get smoke without the boom, and they would like your advice on how to proceed.

Gentlemen did not always live up to their ideal, but the existence of an ideal is a matter of supreme importance.

For all the peril they faced, Leonard and Scott retained their British calm, sounding like two gentlemen discussing the weather.

Please put your penises away, gentlemen. Dinner is procured. By a woman.

I have seen the faces of our enemies! I have looked into the eyes of our foes! Do you know what I have seen? [...] Faces and eyes, gentlemen. Faces and eyes.

Wait a minute. You expect me to stay overnight in a house with four single men? Sean grinned. We're perfect gentlemen, Kim. Everyone knows that. Don't let us worry you. I'm not worried about my reputation, I'm worried about the state of the bathrooms.

Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns. If I ever get married, I'm going to marry one.

In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face to face, exchanging tender glances, triumphant and supreme in the tranquil abuse of their sex, and their open contempt for the male. And the gentlemen applauded them.

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies, And Lads and Girls; Was laughter and ability and sighing, And frocks and curls. This passive place a Summer's nimble mansion, Where Bloom and Bees Fulfilled their Oriental Circuit, Then ceased like these.

This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies.

XXX. Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent In an emergency!

Public life for Georgian gentlemen invariably assumed the taking of office, but there was no formal place for their wives in the machinery of local government. However, this rough division between private and public could be applied to almost any century or any culture–a fact which robs the distinction of its analytical purchase. 19

To propose an agreement on principles does not involve or imply that the Western world should be Orientalized ; propaganda is out of the question as between gentlemen, and everyone must make use of the forms appropriate to his own psychophysical constitution. It is the European that wants to practice Yoga ; the Oriental points out that he has already contemplative disciplines of his own.

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

Marching along, fifty-score strong,Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

The fortunes of war, gentlemen," he said, "can be cruel and capricious. But that is not the same as treason.

She wanted all her boys to be gentlemen, she said.

The Players are gentlemen," he'd intoned, "pretending to be actors. The Lambs are actors, pretending to be gentlemen. And the Friars—the Friars are neither, pretending to be both.

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.