Top 100 Quotes About Gentleman
#1. Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket ...
Ambrose Bierce
#2. 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
#3. My only other choice was to rejoin my mother and listen to fascinating facts about every eligible man passing by. (Apparently, Mr. Egbert collects gentleman's bootlaces! The wonder of it all.)
Kelly Zekas
#4. At that bureau a lovesick woman in a crinoline, her hair parted in the middle, may have written a passionate letter to her faithless lover, or a peppery old gentleman in a green frock coat and a stock indited an angry epistle to his extravagant son.
W. Somerset Maugham
#5. I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.
Justin Bieber
#6. Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
John Ruskin
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?"
(Analects 1.1)
Confucius
#10. 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
#11. This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as that bastard Klaw.
Michael Moorcock
#12. My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.
William Shakespeare
#13. 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
#14. Come on, gentleman; let us drink to our stupidity.
Santosh Kalwar
#15. I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him.
Charles Dickens
#16. 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
#18. I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act - it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I've ever met.
Lori Petty
#19. Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"
An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
Margaret Mitchell
#20. To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.
Hermione Gingold
#21. 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
#22. In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts - it is unusual to offer both. In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts - it is unusual to offer both.
Lewis Carroll
#23. If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy
#24. A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
Brander Matthews
#25. 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
#26. Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
Rudyard Kipling
#27. 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
#29. 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
#30. Centurion! Would you like to be a cavalryman one last time? There are Venicones who escaped when your line was broken to be hunted down, and Tribune Licinius has ordered me to take the best men available in their pursuit. Leave this hairy gentleman to watch the fun, and join us in the hunt!
Anthony Riches
#31. A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.
Confucius
#32. Consoled him with the assurance that 'he'd catch it,' condescended to help him. Mr. Sowerberry came down soon after. Shortly afterwards, Mrs. Sowerberry appeared. Oliver having 'caught it,' in fulfilment of Noah's prediction, followed that young gentleman down the stairs to breakfast.
Charles Dickens
#33. A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
Confucius
#34. The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power
the gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
Hannah Arendt
#36. A gentleman? How quaint. Not everything in a lady's life revolves around a man,
Daphne Du Bois
#37. 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
#38. I contrive,"' said Prudence softly. 'Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.' 'It has ever been my motto,' the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly.
Georgette Heyer
#39. 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
#40. This gentleman is heading for Mineral County in West Virginia. Near a place called Keyser, not too far from the Maryland line." Which all meant nothing to Reacher, except that West Virginia sounded one step better than regular Virginia.
Lee Child
#42. As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can't guarantee I'm going to be a complete gentleman about it.
Meredith Wild
#43. 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
#44. do I look like the kind of girl to lie back demurely so my gentleman friend can politely slip his penis inside my vagina? I think not." He
E.J. Shortall
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
May Sarton
#48. 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
#49. I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could.
Susanna Clarke
#50. Ladies and gentleman, Tim said. May I present to you, our son, Jason Grant!
Jay Bell
#51. 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
#52. Roy is my favorite security guy. He's a huge African-American gentleman who always has a beautiful smile on his face. He's the King of the Main Desk, and I'm always glad to arrive at work and bask in his magnificent good cheer.
Audrey Niffenegger
#53. 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
#54. I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
Oliver Cromwell
#55. Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!
Winston Churchill
#56. '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
#57. 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
#58. To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
Oliver Goldsmith
#59. Lord Maccon was Scottish-big; this gentleman was only English-big - there was a distinct difference.
Gail Carriger
#60. For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?
Anne Graham
#62. 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
#63. The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
Charles Tupper
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#69. Like a proper gentleman, the good captain never made mention of the undergarment murder.
Gail Carriger
#70. I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
Vince Gill
#72. He was just one of those rare guys who could be both a gentleman and a badass.
Richelle Mead
#73. Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#74. I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.
Jussie Smollett
#75. The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#76. God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created.
Irving Stone
#77. I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran
Krista Alasti
#78. Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).
George Bernard Shaw
#79. 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
#80. No young lady can be jastified in flling in love before the gentleman's love is declared
Abhishek Vicky
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.
Ann Robinson
#84. ...and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.
Laurie R. King
#85. No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
Keith Miller
#86. The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
Aneurin Bevan
#87. Mr. Tope is again highly entertained, and, having fallen into respectful convulsions of laughter, subsides into a deferential murmur, importing that surely any gentleman would deem it a pleasure and an honour to have his neck broken, in return for such a compliment from such a source.
Charles Dickens
#88. 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
#89. That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#90. 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
#91. Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor", said I, but quietly as the occassion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public".
William Golding
#92. top-boots - not to keep the reader any longer in suspense, in short, the eyes were the wandering eyes of Mr. Grummer, and the body was the body of the same gentleman.
Charles Dickens
#93. ...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
#94. 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
#95. The guard looked from one to the other. His mind was soon made up. His training led him to despise foreigners, and to respect and admire well-dressed gentleman who travelled first class.
Agatha Christie
#96. A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
Haruki Murakami
#97. Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.
Charles Caleb Colton
#98. 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
#99. Clearly in textbook terms, the gentleman should text the lady first after intercourse, but perhaps the whole socio-etiquettical system breaks down when an insect plague is involved.
Helen Fielding
#100. The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality.
Adolf Loos
