Gentleman Quotes

• The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

  

  Confucius
  • Gentleman
  • Practiced
  • Preaches

• The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pursuit
  • Unspeakable
  • Galloping

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

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentlemen, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Education

• A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Feelings
  • Hurts

• In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

  

  Confucius
  • Moral
  • Gentleman
  • Dealing

• While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

  

  Confucius
  • Law
  • Rule
  • Treatment

• Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Company
  • Pink
  • Table

• A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Never
  • Rude

• I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Want
  • Gentleman
  • Manners

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

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Try
  • To Be
  • Half

• The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Heart
  • Learning
  • Petty

• Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS.

  

  Wade Barrett
  • Bad
  • News
  • Wwe

• You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Men
  • Kind

• Without perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Education
  • Perfect
  • Christian

• A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Gentleman

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

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Loved
  • Petty

• Golf is a game with morals. There's always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That's why it's a gentleman's game.

  

  Katt Williams
  • Why
  • Game
  • Opportunity

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

  

  Vince Gill
  • Good
  • Gentleman
  • Southern

• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Music
  • Record
  • Fever

• 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.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Country
  • Community
  • Balance

• 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.

  

  Phyllis McGinley
  • Brain
  • Baby
  • Intuition

• A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

  

  Confucius
  • Gentleman
  • Fretting
  • Spacious

• I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Accomplishment

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