Top 100 Quotes About A Gentleman
#1. No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in evening dress - children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed.
Virginia Woolf
#2. First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy."
~Lord Bourne
Sarah MacLean
#3. He was so pleasant that his fellow writers, his rivals and contemporaries, forgave him even the fact that he was a gentleman.
W. Somerset Maugham
#4. If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ...
Catherine The Great
#5. My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.
Jane Pauley
#6. I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .
Silvio Berlusconi
#8. I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.
Dennis Prager
#10. Of a gentleman in dress-clothes, who had suddenly stood before them in the passage, without their knowing where he came from. He seemed to have come straight through
Gaston Leroux
#11. Ye have to be bold, lad. We're told that ladies want cringing politeness from a gentleman, but what they really want is a bit of forwardness, even carnality. It's exciting for them.
Jennifer Ashley
#12. They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
Otto Von Bismarck
#14. He was just one of those rare guys who could be both a gentleman and a badass.
Richelle Mead
#15. Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#16. I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.
Jussie Smollett
#17. I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran
Krista Alasti
#18. 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
#19. His eyes were dark, dangerous, and not at all cold. He burned with an internal inferno she wanted to touch. She stared into the gaze of a tiger and knew, even as she watched the cat retreat into the camouflage of a gentleman: The Duke of Wakefield was the Ghost of St. Giles.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#20. How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.
H.L. Mencken
#21. The one human being she had ever fully and wholeheartedly trusted had failed her; the only man she had ever known to whom she could point and say with expert knowledge, "He is a gentleman, in his heart he is a gentleman," had betrayed her, publicly, grossly, and shamelessly.
Harper Lee
#23. What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.
W. Somerset Maugham
#24. The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")
Robert Barr
#25. All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.
Frederick Marryat
#27. Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?
Marquis De Sade
#28. There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
Hugh Leonard
#29. The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
William Hazlitt
#30. ...He was succeeded by a gentleman who gazed at the Brussels sprouts and asked if the funny little knobs on the stalks were a form of disease. I told him yes. Eczema.
Beverley Nichols
#31. The Indian was a gentleman named Sequoyah, somewhat older than the young Wilsons and their friends. He nodded soberly to Jamie, and swinging the bundle off his shoulder, laid it on the ground at Jamie's feet, saying something in Cherokee.
Diana Gabaldon
#32. If a girl sees herself as a lady, she will expect her escort to behave like a gentleman. He will respect her if she respects herself.
James C. Dobson
#33. A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
Haruki Murakami
#34. The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
Kurt Vonnegut
#35. The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.
Oliver Goldsmith
#36. 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
William Congreve
#37. I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
Oliver Cromwell
#38. Tell me, cat-man, why can I understand her?"
"First," said Eanrin with a glower, "you will not call me 'cat-man' again. I am a knight, a poet, and a gentleman, and you will address me as sir or not address me at all.
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
#39. Jean Laffite was a sexy bad boy with a gentleman's manners and an air of barely suppressed danger. Every girl's secret dreamboat in other words. We always say we want a nice, hardworking, decent guy but we're lying to ourselves. - DJ Jaco
Suzanne Johnson
#40. I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could.
Susanna Clarke
#41. 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
#42. When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
May Sarton
#43. Recently I gave a lecture and a gentleman came to me and asked how I'd like to be remembered, i'd never been asked that before, so I thought for a few seconds. And I said I want to be remembered that I had a great love for my fellow man.
Billy Casper
#44. It was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, norher brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.
Frances Trollope
#45. Steve Burton, I adore. He's got the overall picture. He's wise beyond his years. He's not overwhelmed, and he's not in awe. He's a gentleman. And a hunk.
Leslie Charleson
#46. Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.
Guy De Maupassant
#47. A gentleman? How quaint. Not everything in a lady's life revolves around a man,
Daphne Du Bois
#48. A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.
Confucius
#49. What makes you think you can stop me?"
"I'm a lady, and you're a gentleman."
He smirked. "Are you sure about that?"
"About which?"
"Either.
Jayne Fresina
#50. 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
#51. The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler
#52. A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
Brander Matthews
#53. People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in Parliament used to be something when I was young, but it won't make a make a gentleman now-a-days. It seems to me that none but brewers, and tallow-chandlers, and lawyers go into Parliament now.
Anthony Trollope
#55. There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.
William Cowper Prime
#56. I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him.
Charles Dickens
#57. 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
#58. I'm shocked," St. Vincent said gravely, "but I'll recover." Looking around them as if to ascertain that he wouldn't be overheard, he whispered conspiratorially, "I'm not really a gentleman, you know.
Lisa Kleypas
#59. It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.
Debra Winger
#60. Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.
Joan Collins
#61. I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.
Justin Bieber
#63. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice - that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation. No,
Gail Carriger
#64. You can't expect any woman to be a lady if you're not being a gentleman, and vice versa.
N.B. Roberts
#65. The Count took pride in wearing a well-tailored jacket; but he took greater pride in knowing that a gentleman's presence was best announced by his bearing, his remarks, and his manners. Not by the cut of his coat. Yes,
Amor Towles
#66. A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
Lord Chesterfield
#67. A gentleman doesn't have to flex to know that he is strong.
Shay Dawkins
#68. We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.
Robert E.Lee
#69. The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.
Phil Mickelson
#70. It was vowed that there would never be a charge made for entering said Park. It was a gentleman's agreement. But most of the gentlemen eventually died.
Jacob Clifford Moomaw
#72. Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: "A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!
Ted Anthony Roberts
#73. I freely told you, all the wealth I had
Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman.
William Shakespeare
#74. A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.
Confucius
#75. A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#76. An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.
Henry Fielding
#77. If you are lost, I will find you. If you are in danger, I will protect you," he said seriously. "It's what a gentleman does, Elysse."
~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neil
Brenda Joyce
#78. I gasp. The profoundness of such a gesture, from a self-seeking fae, touches my soul. The only thing predictable about my future king is his unpredictability. "You once told me you wouldn't be a gentleman. You lied."
A.G. Howard
#80. This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did ... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#81. Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#82. It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.
Henry George
#83. If you show me a lady, I'll show you a gentleman; show me a bitch, and I'll show you a G.
K'wan
#84. The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
Robert Smith Surtees
#86. Excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.
Oscar Wilde
#87. When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#88. A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops
Italo Calvino
#89. I read that a gentleman gives a lady flowers, and I thought maybe I'm not a gentleman, but no reason not to treat you like a lady.
Shannon Hale
#90. 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
#92. A lifelong disciple of Lord Chesterfield's maxim that a gentleman was free to do anything he pleased as long as he did it with style.
Joseph J. Ellis
#93. Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.
Scott Lynch
#94. Man makes his own destiny. Despite being a woman, she makes Man, a Gentleman.
Vikrmn
#95. Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age.
Jane Leavy
#96. A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
Anna Howard Shaw
#97. JACK
Your duty as a gentleman calls you back.
ALGERNON
My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
Oscar Wilde
#98. I can't say yes (a gentleman never tells). But I'd lie if I said no.
Bogdan Vaida
#99. He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them by.
Margaret Mitchell
#100. Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never would.
Susanna Clarke
