Famous Quotes
119 Quotations with Gentleman.
- 1. Unknown: A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
- 2. W. Somerset Maugham: When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with h ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Gre ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 6. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: NOMINEE, n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life an ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himse ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat pref ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involun ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack an ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
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- 14. Ambrose Bierce: TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of ...
- 15. Oscar Wilde: The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pu ...
- 16. George Bernard Shaw: Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
- 17. George Bernard Shaw: I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
- 18. Herbert Spencer: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose ...
- 19. Sir Winston Churchill: But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all ...
- 20. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himsel ...