Gentleman Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

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.

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

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

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.

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

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.

Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

Make them think they've been fooled by a gentlemen.

Gentlemen, start your engines!

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

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.

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.'

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

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

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

Gentlemen, include me out.

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

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

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)

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.