Gentleman Quotes

Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him.

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

A true gentleman never leaves his lady.

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

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

I'm a southern gentleman.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentleman.

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.

I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go, keep you in my arms girl, you'd never be alone, and I could be a gentlemen anything you want, if I was your boyfriend.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.