Quotes:'It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a ge
ntleman 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.'
View quotes by John Paul JonesThis is my 48th award this year. Appare
ntly when I reach 50 I can trade them in for a kettle
View quotes by Robbie WilliamsWe are all esquires now, and we are none of us ge
ntlemen any more.
View quotes by Sir Ernest GowersHe seemed at ease and to have the look of the last ge
ntleman in Europe. (Letters to the Sphinx)
View quotes by Ada LeversonWomen are consta
ntly asking me who my doctor is and referring to my chest. I don't understand what everyone's obsession with boobs is about. Every other person in the world has a pair.
View quotes by Jennifer Love Hewitt'Only the ge
ntle are ever really strong.'
View quotes by James DeanPhilosophy is such an impertine
ntly litigious lady that a man has as good be engaged in law suits as have to do with her (letter to Edmund Halley)
View quotes by Sir Isaac NewtonThe English country ge
ntleman galloping after a fox is the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
View quotes by Oscar WildeIt is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valia
ntly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who at the best, knows in the end the trimph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, at least falls while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
View quotes by Theodore RooseveltI do not know the American ge
ntleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
View quotes by Charles DickensIgnorance more freque
ntly begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
View quotes by Charles DarwinConsta
ntly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
View quotes by Jerry GarciaDo not go ge
ntle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
View quotes by Dylan ThomasThe cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs
And as sile
ntly steal away.
from ' The Day is Done '
View quotes by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowGe
ntlemen, include me out.
View quotes by Samuel Goldwyn'My body is a pebble to them,
they tend it as water tends to the pebbles it must run over,
smoothing them ge
ntly.'
View quotes by Sylvia PlathIn our rampa
ntly secular world, biography is now the only form of life after death
View quotes by David CannadineThis is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk flue
ntly, debate forcefully and quote aptly. (Science for the Citizen)
View quotes by Lancelot Hogben"The past is a foreign country; they do things differe
ntly there."
View quotes by L P HartleyIt is not whether your words or actions are tough or ge
ntle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
View quotes by Rene CharCan anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so veheme
ntly to insist on their resisting temptation? (In Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Women 1792)
View quotes by Vicesimus KnoxSufficie
ntly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
View quotes by Arthur C ClarkeThe right honourable ge
ntleman is reminiscent of a poker. The only difference is that a poker gives off the occasional signs of warmth. (On Robert Peel)
View quotes by Benjamin Disraeli'You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because ge
ntlemen, this is my last press conference.' (November 7, 1962)
View quotes by Richard Nixon'I want to wait to have sex until I'm married.' - the quote Britney appare
ntly regrets most
View quotes by Britney SpearsA man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. (The Ge
ntleman's Magazine, 1781)
View quotes by John DennisJesu, good above all other,
Ge
ntle Child of ge
ntle Mother,
In a stable born our Brother,
Guve us grace to persevere. ('Jesu, good above all other')
View quotes by Percy DearmerGe
ntlemen: I have not had your advantages. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
View quotes by Horatio BottomleyA mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in consta
ntly, but only for a night and away (The Country Wife)
View quotes by William WycherleyThen, cleaving the glass, gazelles appear
(The ge
ntler dolphins of kindlier waves)
With sensitive heads alert of ear;
Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves
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