Gentleman Quotes

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

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

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

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Kim Jong Il made his staff call him “dear” and spent the day drinking cognac. It's like I have a twin, ladies and gentlemen.

I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.

Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get.

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.

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

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

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.

I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

A gentleman can never have too many bow ties.

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

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

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen.

Gentlemen never wear brown in London.

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

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

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

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

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.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.