Gentleman Quotes · Page 23

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

— Lord Byron

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

— Ezra Pound

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

— Shirley MacLaine

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

— Robert Smith Surtees

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

— George M. Cohan

“Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.”

— Ken Doyle

A lot of people are curious why I'm a lesbian. Ladies and gentlemen, the cast of Entourage!

— Jane Lynch

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

— Anthony Trollope

Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than…

— George Mason

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law,…

— Confucius

Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House.…

— Nancy Pelosi

Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come,…

— Scott Lynch

The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it…

— Alan Moore

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…

— Louis Kronenberger

If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say:…

— Alfred Stieglitz

A wise man knows when he has a special lady. He always puts her first, and never puts her last! Once in…

— Bryan Burden

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make…

— Confucius

When you call us, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, we do have your phone number. And if you say anything…

— Anonymous

The confrontation was not created by the police. The confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, get the…

— Richard J. Daley

[writing to Stirling in 1740] ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they…

— Colin Maclaurin

“It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed…

— Colum McCann

Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in…

— Don King

“It is my obligation as a gentleman to protect philosophers.”

— Bill Minutaglio

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

— Mark Twain

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

— Robert A. Burton

“You might not see one in a hundred with gentleman so plainly written as in Mr. Knightley.”

— Jane Austen

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

— Milan Kundera

I feel like my era was an era in which guys learned their trade the old school way.

— Ted DiBiase Sr

If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.

— Jeff Foxworthy

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

— William Lyon Phelps

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

— M.C. Beaton

“When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?”

— John Ball

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

— Dizzy Gillespie

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

— William Faulkner

My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’

— Steve Sabol

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

— Buster Keaton

My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

— William Shakespeare