Gentleman Quotes

• I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

  

  William James
  • Interesting
  • Perspective
  • Philosophy

• A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

  

  Confucius
  • True
  • Gentleman
  • Demands

• 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.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Eye
  • Speak

• 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.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Blood
  • Pass
  • Burn

• A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Danger
  • Gentleman
  • Functionary

• 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.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Gentleman
  • Dignity
  • Elegance

• A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Gentleman
  • Contradiction
  • Nose

• The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Gentleman
  • Gutter
  • Parlor

• An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Gentleman
  • Old Men
  • Shabbiness

• He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Thing
  • Gentleman
  • Officer

• The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Security
  • Prove
  • Gentleman

• The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Gentleman
  • Written
  • Malls

• 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.

  

  George Galloway
  • Gentleman

• A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.

  

  Elizabeth Marie Pope
  • Voice
  • Lady
  • Marrying

• What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Planets
  • Manners
  • Surface

• The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Gentleman

• The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Intelligent
  • Gentleman
  • Gents

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

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Gentleman
  • Nobleman

• 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.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Love
  • Dream
  • Young

• In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.

  

  Edith Grossman
  • Reading
  • Sunset
  • Brains

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Eternity
  • Relation
  • Describes

• She wouldn't shake my hand! I said 'C'mon, be a gentleman'.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • She
  • Hand
  • Gentleman

• The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Reflection
  • Gentleman

• I am the most proud of is the show called Cracker and I think it only lasted a season or two. It was with a gentleman named Robert Pastorelli who has since passed away, but it was based on an English television show that was really popular.

  

  Boti Bliss
  • Proud
  • Television
  • Season

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