Gentleman Quotes
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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. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one. (Quote by - Robert S. Surtees)
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. (Quote by - Robert E. Lee)
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)
Oh! Saint Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town, And on it put a steeple. (Quote by - Henry Bennett)
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words. (Quote by - Kong Fu Zi)
A gentleman can live through anything. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I know he is a gentleman and everybody wants to see a second fight [on Lennox Lewis] (Quote by - Vitali Klitschko)
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. (Quote by - William Lyon Phelps)
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. (Quote by - John Gay)
Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life. (Quote by - Edward Fox)
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. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevsky)
I was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman. (Quote by - Thomas Dekker)
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train. (Quote by - Phyllis McGinley)
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. (Quote by - John Locke)
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox is the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
One who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)
He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle] (Quote by - Claudio Ranieri)
He was every other inch a gentleman. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
Mike's [Ruddock] place in Welsh rugby history is assured. He will go down as a fine ambassador, a wonderful coach, and a fine gentleman. (Quote by - David Pickering)
Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman. (Quote by - Rufus W Griswold)
Athletic, a gentleman. I'm a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.- on her dream man (Quote by - Brooke Burns)
Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
The right honourable gentleman is reminiscent of a poker. The only difference is that a poker gives off the occasional signs of warmth. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. (Quote by - King James I)
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. (Quote by - Puzant Kevork Thomajan)
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman (Quote by - Marie De France)
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
I am at heart a gentleman. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
He seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman in Europe. (Quote by - Ada Leverson)
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. (Quote by - Anna Howard Shaw)
All this selling himself as a gentleman is not true. He is the worst rubbish there is [on Tim Henman. Coming from Nalbandian - you just couldn't make it up!] (Quote by - David Nalbandian)
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. (Quote by - Lana Turner)
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. (Quote by - Lawrence G. Lovasik)
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. (Quote by - Steve Martin)
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
