Gentleman Quotes

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

J. G. Holland
- Gentleman

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

Kathy Griffin
- She
- Hand
- Gentleman
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Ezra Pound
- Trust
- Training
- Poetic
I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

Sarah Fielding
- Believe
- Wife
- Marriage
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

Sarah MacLean
- Long
- Enjoy
- Bourne
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

Arthur Conan Doyle
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.

Anna Godbersen
- Truth
- Gentleman
- Require