Quotes 41 till 60 of 60.
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
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Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
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Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
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Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
The Devil's Dictionary -
A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
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