Edmund Burke Quotes

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

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

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

I am at heart a gentleman.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.

Kings! Why, what's a king? .... Is their blood purer than our own? We are all the seed of Abraham!

I have made you a count and a duke, but I could not make you a gentleman.

I'm not an aristocrat. I have no idea what that is.

When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

The king can drink the best of wine -So can I;And has enough when he would dine -So have I;And can not order rain or shine -Nor can I.Then where's the difference - let me see -Betwixt my lord the king and me?

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.