310 Quotes About Gentleman

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.