Quotes About Being A Gentleman

#1. Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn't mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.

Ben Aaronovitch

#2. The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.

Louis Kronenberger

#3. Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Horatio Nelson

#4. 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

#5. God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

Henri Rousseau

#6. And of course, being a gentleman, he let her go first, not that there was any kind of thank-you.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#7. I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.

Dhani Jones

#8. I warned you that I'm having a difficult time being a gentleman. Should I assume you're provoking me on purpose?

Tessa Bailey

#9. I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.

Robin Thicke

#10. Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet ... it's a tuba among the flutes.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#11. I stifled a laugh, not sure which was funnier: the idea of me being a lady o him being a gentleman.

Danielle Paige

#12. I was far from perfect, and no one would ever accuse me of being a gentleman, but cruel didn't sit well with me.

Lisa Kessler

#13. Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#14. Long had he believed that a gentleman should turn to a mirror with a sense of distrust. For rather than being tools of self-discovery, mirrors tended to be tools of self-deceit.

Amor Towles

#15. Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

Thomas Gainsborough

#16. 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

#17. You can't expect any woman to be a lady if you're not being a gentleman, and vice versa.

N.B. Roberts

#18. The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Robert Smith Surtees

#19. My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called fidelity to ancient tradition.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#20. Man makes his own destiny. Despite being a woman, she makes Man, a Gentleman.

Vikrmn

#21. I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

Justin Bieber

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. He was not used to being at a loss. Usually, he was the gentleman with the plan. Every little detail cataloged and put in its place. But now he had no place, and the details were everywhere.

Lish McBride

#26. 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

#27. Being strong is having the wisdom when it is necessary. Being strong is to being gentle when it is most needed. Being strong is using flexibility when it is required. Being strong is about being there when it is a must for you to be there. Being strong is not really about being strong ... ... ...

Sameh Elsayed

#28. You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

Charles II Of England

#29. Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

Orlando Bloom

#30. About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

Robert Graves

#31. The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.

George Everett Macdonald

#32. The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

Ne-Yo

#33. she's a lady, my lord. And you know as well as anyone that I am the furthest thing from being a gentleman you'll ever meet." Throughout

Catherine Gayle

#34. Being a gentleman is highly overrated.

J.L. Berg

#35. A gentleman who doesn't have the physical and/or emotional sensitivity to use condoms couldn't possibly possess the self-confidence required to fully procure the infinite sounding of pleasure from the depth of a woman's being, via the endlessness of her cunt.

Inga Muscio