Top 100 A Gentleman Is Quotes
#1. One of the true tests to tell if a man's been raised right and is a gentleman is whether he stands when a lady enters the room - or
Lisa Shearin
#2. A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
William Hazlitt
#3. A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
Mark Twain
#4. A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.
Paul G. Hoffman
#5. A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
William Shakespeare
#7. The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
William Hazlitt
#8. Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Luigi Pirandello
#9. A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes has a shortage; and even learning may incidentally bring a salary. A gentleman is concerned with the progress of the Way; he is not anxious about poverty.
Confucius
#11. It is said that the hallmark of a gentleman is that he is only ever rude intentionally. Arthur Bryant was no gentleman. His rudeness came from an inability to cloak his opinions in even the most cursory civility. He believed in good manners at the meal table and bad manners almost everywhere else.
Christopher Fowler
#14. A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
Tom Waits
#15. The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
Patrick Macnee
#16. A gentleman is not disturbed by anything
Aristotle.
#17. I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true.
Ne-Yo
#18. You are mistaken; he is not a gentleman but a sir. Just a sir. For a gentleman is grander and a rare acquaintance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. A Gentleman is a prime example of what a man should be.
Pontius Joseph
#20. Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
Edgar Allan Poe
#21. The Episcopalian ideal of a gentleman is a man who, if a lady falls down drunk, will pick her up off the floor and freshen up her drink. You practically have to be on the list for your second liver transplant before a Southern Episcopalian notices that you drink too much.
Charlotte Hays
#22. The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
Charles Dickens
#23. The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
Stanley Baldwin
#24. Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery.
Emily Auerbach
#25. [Maisie]: ... going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -
Jacqueline Winspear
#27. A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.
Karen Armstrong
#29. I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.
Justin Bieber
#30. Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.
Srinivas Shenoy
#31. A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.
Confucius
#32. A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
Haruki Murakami
#35. A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
Christopher Hitchens
#36. He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
Denis Diderot
#37. A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.
Anuj
#38. The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.
Ne-Yo
#39. A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Fred Allen
#40. A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
Livy
#41. The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
John Lancaster Spalding
#42. Being a gentleman is highly overrated.
J.L. Berg
#43. The definition of a gentleman is a man who enters a revolving door in front of you and exits behind you.
Chloe Thurlow
#44. A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.
Mark Twain
#45. A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.
Eva Brann
#46. I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Anna Kendrick
#47. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde
#48. A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.
Confucius
#49. To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.
Murray Kempton
#50. A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. He stops kissing, but his lips stay touching mine, lightly, like a feather would. "I'm bad for you, Sarah. I won't ever be the gentleman you need."
"Maybe I don't want gentle."
He pulls something from his dress pants and presses it into my hand. "And that is my fault.
Tara Brown
#52. A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
George Bernard Shaw
#53. It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#54. It is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
Charles Dickens
#56. How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
James Payn
#57. To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.
Bill Bryson
#59. Who is he, the ill-disposed gentleman in pink?" inquire the Comte, when they were out of earshot.
"A creature of no importance," shrugged Philip.
"So I see. Yet he contrives to arouse your anger.?"
"Yes," admitted Philip. "I do not like the color of his coat.
Georgette Heyer
#60. HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO!
J.K. Rowling
#61. You want to watch him, Julia," he told me. "He may look harmless enough, but appearances can be deceiving." Geoff grinned. "That's slander, that is. You know I always behave like a perfect gentleman." "Right then, Sir Galahad," Iain said dryly.
Susanna Kearsley
#62. It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.
Athenaeus
#63. It would be obscene in me as a gentlemen to set my men upon you without warning. A gentleman always tells his enemies he is going to attack them before he does it. It gives them time enough to write to their mothers.
Michelle Franklin
#64. We live in a world where it's so accessible to date now, which is great. I don't judge that. We have so many ways of meeting people. I like to meet someone and have that chivalry, to take them out on a date and actually be a gentleman. I think that's becoming rarer and rarer.
Alex Pettyfer
#65. Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle
Claudio Ranieri
#66. No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
Jane Austen
#67. Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.
Kenneth Kaunda
#68. All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking
Muhammad Ali
#69. It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#70. Is this your soap?" "It is," Val answered, sitting on the bed and watching as St. Just dunked to wet his hair. "Do the honors. I am going smell like a bordello when I get out of this bath." "You will smell like a gentleman.
Grace Burrowes
#71. Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.
H. Rider Haggard
#72. A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
John Lancaster Spalding
#73. 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.
John Gay
#74. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
Karl Marx
#75. What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#76. I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.
Donatella Versace
#77. Madam, I assure you that you are dealing with two gentleman of the highest propriety and social standing.
When one contemplates the deeds that are daily done in society's name, such a description is no high recommendation.
Paul Di Filippo
#78. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
John Locke
#79. Neptune can sense that I love him; his multiple desires are perfectly clear to me. What charms me about the whole business is that he stubbornly insists on remaining a dog, whereas his mistress would like to make a gentleman of him.
Muriel Barbery
#80. 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
#81. The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice
or he is not a gentleman.
Emily Post
#82. This is beautiful." Eugenie ran her fingers along a massive mahogany sideboard, on the top of which rested a red velvet sash with fine embroidery on it and, on top of the sash, a silver dagger. That little vignette was Jean Lafitte in a nutshell. Refined gentleman and renegade. Velvet and violence.
Suzanne Johnson
#83. After all, is a gentleman's library of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves anything more than a vanity?
Billy Collins
#84. Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.
Seneca The Younger
#85. 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.
Samuel Richardson
#86. Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole ...
Hans Frank
#87. There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.
Georgette Heyer
#88. A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
H.L. Mencken
#89. Tam considers me a challenge. I consider Tam a work in progress. I also think there's a gentleman lurking under that calculating exterior. Tam thinks 'gentleman' is a dirty word. I talk dirty to Tam every chance I get.
Lisa Shearin
#90. If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
Abigail Van Buren
#91. A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#92. I've had my own anecdotals with old friends, here's a gentleman quoted in the Times about, "I believe my government is suppose to protect me but it has let me down. I resent having to defend myself; I shouldn't have to but at this point I don't feel like I have a choice."
Chuck Todd
#93. We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
Branch Rickey
#94. The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
Benjamin Disraeli
#95. I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#97. A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#98. Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
William Osler
#99. Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
G.K. Chesterton
#100. He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
Jane Austen
