Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

In the rare cases where it occurs a failure to increase ones visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

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.