A Quote by Winston Churchill

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill
British - Statesman
November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

John Ruskin

Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.

Philip Pullman

Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.

Robert Breault

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

Oscar Wilde

It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people.

Nicholas Haslam

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

Christopher Hitchens

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

David Spade

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

J. G. Holland

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Oscar Wilde

She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that nobody would mind.” “Someone ought to be rude to him. He’s rude enough to everyone else.

Cassandra Clare

Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

Adam Smith

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Confucius

To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

Pierre Daninos

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