Quotes About Gentleman

He was a long, thin old gentleman in his middle seventies with a faraway unseeing look in his eye, not unlike that which a dead halibut on a fishmonger's slab gives the pedestrian as he passes.

She descended, not through the nearest hole as was her childhood habit, but more sedately down a marble staircase that began life in the upper world as an innocent stairway from a cellar door. Below, Faey complained about her tardiness, but was too busy to press for explanations. A gentleman from the palace had sent a request, with gold, for a method of detecting poison. Mag sighed. It would be a smelly afternoon.

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

Mark Strong is an amazing person. I just kind of enjoyed watching him. He is just so calm, dedicated, professional, and an absolute gent as well.

The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said.

It used to be a gentleman was known by his books; nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Don't you know that?

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor, said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public.

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor, said I, but quietly as the occassion demanded, that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

All that gleaming leather and gold stamping and beautiful type belongs in the pine-panelled library of an English country home; it wants to be read by the fire in a gentleman's leather easy chair--not on a secondhand studio couch in a one-room hovel in a broken-down brownstone front.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town, And on it put a steeple.

The little plantations at Weymouth, Hull, and Mount Wollaston, although within the limits of Boston Bay, nevertheless do not concern us here so much as the solitary men who had made homes for themselves upon the land now actually part of the modern city. On an island in the harbour was settled David Thomson, "Gent.," an attorney for Gorges, with his family. Thomson died in 1628, leaving to his family his island and to the island his name, which it has borne ever since.

Nothing shows both polish and utility like the nattily tucked pocket handkerchief or 'pocket square' in the breast pocket of a man's blazer, sport coat, or suit jacket.

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.

Karan Thapar is an endangered species. They don't make them like him anymore. True, thousands have gone to the Doon Valley School after him, as indeed to Oxford and Cambridge universities. But Karan Thapar is more than the sum of his upbringing. He's a gentleman journalist.

Jackie whispered to me, pointing to the gentleman seated on Ethel's right: "That is one of Bobby's oldest friends, and he's the one selling drugs to David.

I hope that gay gentleman will be safe.

I've never given my phone number to someone on the street, but when someone is a gentleman, I appreciate the compliments.

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman. I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.