Gentleman Quotes
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You look at William Powell in 'My Man Godfrey' and he's a butler in that and he's very dapper. He's a very refined gentleman. I liked playing around with that, with the good posture and a style, a panache, and a way of moving about the room.
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Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?
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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
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If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ...
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I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
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I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.
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The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.
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Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain planks in the floor from which the blood will not be taken out. You may scrape and scrape, as the present owner has done, or plane and plane, as his father did, or scrub and scrub, as his grandfather did, or burn and burn with strong acids, as his great-grandfather did, but, there the blood will still be - no redder and no paler - no more and no less - always just the same.
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
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It is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
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Pipe down Mr Indignation. We'll see what the viewers thought of your double standards, your indignation about me and the aplomb with which you become a lying plutocrat in your gentleman's club.
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I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as 'a man,' we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow-men, but in relation to himself,--to life--to time--to eternity.
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Jefferson was not ashamed to call the black man his brother and to address him as a gentleman.
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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
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A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
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The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.
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For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
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Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
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When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.
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An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.
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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
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A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.
