Gentleman Quotes
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She wouldn't shake my hand! I said 'C'mon, be a gentleman'.
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I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.
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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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Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
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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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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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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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The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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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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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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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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The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
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There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
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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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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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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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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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I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around.
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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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Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.
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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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First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne
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In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.
