Top 36 Gentleman Life Quotes
#1. The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.
D. A. Carson
#2. A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.
Zengzi
#3. Insufferable woman!" was her immediate exclamation. "Worse than I had supposed. Absolutely insufferable! Knightley! - I could not have believed it. Knightley! - never seen him in her life before, and call him Knightley! - and discover that he is a gentleman!
Jane Austen
#4. A gentleman? How quaint. Not everything in a lady's life revolves around a man,
Daphne Du Bois
#5. I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be able to contribute more.
Tom Cruise
#6. There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
Hugh Leonard
#7. You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.
Nicholas Sparks
#8. I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one's hands before one doing nothing - to live like a gentleman, as fools call it.
William Morris
#9. To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?
Confucius
#10. If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
Arthur Smith
#11. Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness. And it was urgent that he did, for he knew his life was in peril.
Joseph Heller
#12. My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
Vern Buchanan
#13. What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
Joan Miro
#14. 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
#15. This man was no pampered gentleman, born to a life of softness. No, this man was a brawler, a scrapper, a street fighter. A survivor.
V.E. Lynne
#16. A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.
Peter Cave
#17. Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
Ambrose Bierce
#18. 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.
James Otis
#19. Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
Honore De Balzac
#20. O gentlemen, the time of life is short!
To spend that shortness basely were too long,
If life did ride upon a dial's point,
Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
William Shakespeare
#21. A wealthy gentleman who imperils his life to rescue a young gentlewoman from a burning building must secretly harbor the desire to make said young woman his wife.
P.O. Dixon
#22. When you play with a gentleman, you play like a gentleman. But when you play with bastards, make sure you play like a bigger bastard. Otherwise, you will lose.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
#23. It was not a conspiratorial wink, nor did Hornblower attempt the hopeless task of trying to pretend he stuffed hot greasy sausages into his pockets every day of his life; the wink simply dared the old gentleman to comment on or even think of the remarkable act.
C.S. Forester
#24. And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely.
'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.
W. Somerset Maugham
#25. Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
Walter Savage Landor
#26. We as Bible-believing evangelical Christians are locked in a battle. This is not a friendly gentleman's discussion. It is a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ.
Francis Schaeffer
#28. But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
Ernest Gaines
#29. The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
Confucius
#30. I had reason to be wary of Rowan Gresham.
Crazy doesn't always look crazy.
Sometimes it looks like the most handsome and refined gentleman ever encountered in one's short life.
Jen Crane
#31. I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.
Judy Garland
#32. I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in mirth; it is only fools who are serious.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#34. Like this, Rook." Ford's soft words vibrate into me. "I like you. I'd like to show you how much, actually. I'm being a gentleman to make life easier for you, but believe me, it's not really in my nature to be so accommodating. I typically just take what I want.
J.A. Huss
#35. The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
Paul Morphy
