Gentleman Quotes
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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.
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You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
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I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.
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Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.
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I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.
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I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out
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There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
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Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
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One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I have not had a regular job for years, is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out the jobs to individuals who think as they do. It is not just a question of my appearance, which is what they have sanctimoniously reproached me with. It goes deeper, I do assure you.
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The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
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A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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She wouldn't shake my hand! I said 'C'mon, be a gentleman'.
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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.
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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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.
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In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman.
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The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
