Gentleman Quotes

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

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

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

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

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

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

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

I'm a southern gentleman.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

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

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It's about the reestablishment of 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 love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

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

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

My dog's a gentleman.

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

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

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

I'm a gentleman.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

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

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

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

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.