Top 30 Young Gentlemen Quotes
#1. The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. ["The Power of Christian Young Men", Address at the Young Men's Christian Association's Celebration, Pittsburgh, October 24, 1914]
Woodrow Wilson
#2. Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.
E.F. Benson
#3. The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury
#4. Young gentlemen whose whiskers have not yet developed are authoritatively deciding that nothing can be decided, and dogmatically denouncing all dogmas. We meet them every day, and we notice that in proportion to their ignorance is their confidence in sneering at every holy thing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#5. I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.
Joseph Addison
#6. Excuse me, miss, but the young gentlemen say that you cannot get smoke without the boom, and they would like your advice on how to proceed.
Ally Carter
#7. The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes.
P.G. Wodehouse
#8. here I am, after having been a warrior and a prince, cook, steward and everything else, boiling kettle for de young gentlemen.
Frederick Marryat
#9. Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#10. DANCER ELIAS GARRICK
"NEVER THE SIDEKICK, ALWAYS THE HERO. I'LL SEE YOU IN THE SLIPSTREAM.
Karen Marie Moning
#11. Now, then, young lady. Which of these gentlemen will you marry?"
"This one." She squeezed [his] arm.
The vicar inspected [him] and sniffed. "Doesnt look that much different from the other one."
"Nevertheless"- she fought to remain sober-faced- "this is the man I want.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#12. Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
Joshua Slocum
#13. A warrior always, you lift a hand to create or destroy as you will, and heed no one's call but your own. And all the while, my one breathless thought, repeating as though I know nothing else ... Take me with you.
Donya Petrock
#14. It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.
Douglas Coupland
#15. A young women asked Lee what he would do. Lee replied, "I shall welcome him into my home, show him all the courtesy which is due from one gentlemen to another, and try to do everything in my power to make his stay agreeable.
Clint Johnson
#16. I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
Benjamin Franklin
#17. Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.
Eric Topol
#18. France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Mark Twain
#19. The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#20. Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.
Mira Grant
#21. A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.
Louis L'Amour
#22. I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
Emily Bronte
#24. there isn't such a thing as a murderer who commits crimes at random. Either he removes people who stand (however insignificantly) in his path, or else he kills by conviction.
Agatha Christie
#25. only she could fix her problems with a needle and thread she'd be set. Nellie looked up from the socks she was darning toward the knocking on the front door. Who could
Cynthia Woolf
#26. Gentlemen are gentlemen in bed. They make sure you're having a good time."
"I'll make sure you're having a good time, and that you're okay with everything. I just won't be well mannered about it.
Samantha Young
#27. Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
Carol Leifer
#28. Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
Robert H. Jackson
#29. Look, gentlemen, look at how our young men are shooting themselves - oh, without the least Hamletian question of 'what lies beyond,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#30. Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The
Henry Ford
