Gentleman Quotes

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

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.

I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.

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.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

I am at heart a gentleman.

I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.