Gentlemanly Quotes

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. - Ty Cobb

What we must look for here is, first, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability. - Thomas Arnold

We have been talking about this for a couple of months, but the city of Vista asked us to hold off. They were working behind the scenes to try and make this happen in a gentlemanly manner. - Jim Baumann

We are very angry. It is not very gentlemanly. - Alfred Eder

To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not. - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against dishonorable engagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to kill men with a sword. - Scott Lynch

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. - Anthony Burgess

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others. - Janet Malcolm

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. - Robert Louis Stevenson