Gentleman Quotes
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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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The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.
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I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.
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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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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 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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It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.
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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
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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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This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.
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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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Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.
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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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There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
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A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.
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If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
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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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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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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
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Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.
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Apparently after six days baking pigs and herding bricks, the inhabitants would kick back with a spot of cock-fighting, bullbaiting, and ratting. It was the sort of place an adventurous gentleman might venture only if he didn’t mind being beaten, rolled, and catching an exciting venereal disease.
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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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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
