The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

War would end if the dead could return.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech tree very magnificent to look at in its prime but nothing grows underneath it.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

I am at heart a gentleman.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

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.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.