Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Cory Doctorow

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Alexander Pope

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

Anne Rice

I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

Mavis Staples

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

Rufus Choate

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

William Hazlitt

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.

William Hazlitt

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

William Hazlitt

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

Oscar Wilde

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Nick Cave

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

Oscar Wilde

No gentleman ever has any money.

Mamie Van Doren

Blondes also prefer gentlemen.

King James I

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

Charles Dickens

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.