Top 30 Quotes About English Gentleman
#1. I will not look through keyholes," I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. "Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.
Agatha Christie
#2. If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
John Keegan
#3. According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
Edward Gibbon
#4. No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot
#5. It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17
, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.
Walter Scott
#6. ...and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.
Laurie R. King
#7. Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
Margaret Halsey
#8. My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called fidelity to ancient tradition.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#9. An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.
Will Self
#10. The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
Karel Capek
#11. David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it.
Brooke Fraser
#12. An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.
Maya Rodale
#13. And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely.
'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.
W. Somerset Maugham
#14. Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#15. The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
Anthony Trollope
#17. All that gleaming leather and gold stamping and beautiful type belongs in the pine-panelled library of an English country home; it wants to be read by the fire in a gentleman's leather easy chair--not on a secondhand studio couch in a one-room hovel in a broken-down brownstone front.
Helene Hanff
#18. The whole house came up and I came up with it ... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.
Willie Nelson
#19. Lord Maccon was Scottish-big; this gentleman was only English-big - there was a distinct difference.
Gail Carriger
#21. That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory - hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
Isaac Marion
#22. If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.
Steven Furtick
#23. One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.
Oscar Wilde
#24. With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.
Agatha Christie
#25. There's just something more regular and everyday about cancer than there is about brain surgery. Brain tumours are exotic and interesting. Cancer is scary and horrible. Maybe
Ken Mooney
#26. By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#27. The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Samuel Richardson
#28. But instead of all that, here he was - the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, unbuttoning himself, to denounce the government a little, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universally beloved member of Moscow society.
Leo Tolstoy
#29. To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.
Bill Bryson
#30. I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.
Martin Buber
