Gentleman Quotes

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

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

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

He is every other inch a gentleman.

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

'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.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

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.