Gentleman Quotes

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.

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.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

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.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

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.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

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.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

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.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.