Gentleman Quotes
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest.
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.
What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.
What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.
I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.
Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.
Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss
Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.
Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.
If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.
The young gentleman is correct," he said. Halt raised an eyebrow. "He may be correct, and he is undoubtedly young. But he's no gentleman." ~Halt and General Sapristi speaking of Will
A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
Donald Trump has been nothing but gracious, and a gentleman and a wonderful mentor and boss to me, and to other women. So that's all, that would be my personal choice; not a demand on me.
If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.
Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty - and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.
There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.