Quotes About Gentleman

I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one's hands before one doing nothing - to live like a gentleman, as fools call it.

That smooth-fac'd gentleman, tickling Commodity,Commodity, the bias of the world.

This earth, that bears thee dead,Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

Binzee exhaled. He was a wild child, but when it came to an African queen, he was a true gentleman on all aspects. He didn't play when it came to those built in his mother's likeness. They were even more important than the air he breathed. Binzee stared at

It is seldom that a gentleman raises the subject of sewage so early in a conversation, I reflected.

tall and beautifully erect, with the sort of posture a gentleman acquires through either generations of aristocratic breeding or enthusiastic beatings at excellent schools.

I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman.

I just wondered if you always carry a miniature tool kit when you take a woman out to dinner." "Always. I'm an engineer.

He seemed enlightened. But like every drug lord who's ever risen to such a rank, he was also shrewd, merciless, and ultimately delusional. He was a vicious mass murderer who mistook himself for a gentleman. A thug who fancied himself a poet.

But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean

The problem was that, while the classic European coming-of-age story generally featured a provincial boy who moved to the city and was transformed into a refined gentleman, the American tradition had evolved into the opposite. The American boy came of age by leaving civilization and striking out toward the hills. There, he shed his cosmopolitan manners and became a robust and proficient man. Not a gentleman, mind you, but a man. This

As for Alma's father—Henry Whittaker, the gentleman of the estate—he was pleased with his child.

Be that as it may, a gentleman doesn't continue to press his attentions on a lady who can't return them." "Then, as I see it, you have two problems, my lord," Harry said. Tony's eyes narrowed. "One, that the lady does, in fact, return my attentions, and two"—Harry turned to meet the earl's gaze—"I am no gentleman.

His eyes were dark, dangerous, and not at all cold. He burned with an internal inferno she wanted to touch. She stared into the gaze of a tiger and knew, even as she watched the cat retreat into the camouflage of a gentleman: The Duke of Wakefield was the Ghost of St. Giles.

What are you looking for?" she asked abruptly. "It's rather rude for a gentleman to enter a lady's room without permission." "I'm not a gentleman." "Really? I thought otherwise.

show me the other horses, Captain Trevillion?" "Certainly." He limped forward to offer her his arm.

It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.

But he was a perfect gentleman, Aunt Amelia. He did not even try to kiss me, though he wanted to. ... You always tell me I must be receptive to broadening experiences. That would have been a broadening experience. And, from what I have observed, a very enjoyable one.

I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson.

Mrs. Mitcham had seen more love about in the flat than she could remember during the whole of poor Mr. Cumfrit's time in it. She couldn't help wondering what that poor gentleman would say if he could see what was happening in his flat. He wouldn't much like it, she was afraid; but perhaps hardly anybody who was dead would much like what they would see, supposing they were able to come back and look.

And so because he was half bastard, half gentleman, he asked for her bra

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.