True Gentleman Sayings

#1. 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

#2. The Master said, "A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with."
(Analects 4.9)

Confucius

#3. A true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#4. The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

Puzant Kevork Thomajan

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

Confucius

#8. My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.

Booker T. Washington

#9. A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

Oscar Wilde

#10. I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman.

Myrna Loy

#11. There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

Maria Jane McIntosh

#12. The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Confucius

#13. A true gentleman never leaves his lady.

Alessandro Del Piero

#14. A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

Louis L'Amour

#15. When you get that person out of that dude, that's the real person, you know. And I don't think its dead, but it needs to be more examples, of what a true gentleman and what a true man in every sense of the word is, and that's what I try to be.

Ginuwine

#16. I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Hugh Jackman

#17. A true gentleman doesn't prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn't have any preferences whatsoever.

Matt LeBlanc

#18. A true gentleman has no vices, but he allows you your own.

Michael Shaara

#19. Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

James Russell Lowell

#20. It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#21. Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man ... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Well, sometimes everybody tells you something because it is true."
"Sometimes," Nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the Odyssey? Did everybody write the Aeneid?

Amor Towles

#23. There seems to be a general idea that a clergyman is incapable of behaving like a gentleman. That is not true.

Agatha Christie

#24. 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

#25. Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting.

Stephen Collins

#26. Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it is the truth.

Benjamin Peirce

#27. If you want to know if a gentleman loves you," her mother said, "there is only one true way to be sure."
"It's in his kiss," her mother whispered. "It's all there, in his kiss.

Julia Quinn

#28. 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

#29. If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston - The Last Emperor

#30. A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both.

Alessandra Torre

#31. You ought to be looking where you're going."
"A gentleman would offer his hand right now."
...
"Eadlyn, you've never thought I was a gentleman."
"True.

Kiera Cass

#32. 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