Gentleman Quotes · Page 25

Being male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age, but being a gentlemen is a matter…

— Anonymous

“Now be a gentleman and open the door for me. My hands are full.”

— Michelle Hodkin

True gentleman do still exist. They're just attracted to ladies, not trashy girls

— Anonymous

The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

— Confucius

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

— Christina Stead

“I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman.”

— Alex Potvin

The gentleman will sit! The gentleman is correct in sitting!

— Anthony Weiner

You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch.

— Sam Langford

It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real…

— Ogden Nash

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward…

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

“Mr. Segundus began to suspect that they had an uneventful morning, and that when a strange gentleman had walked into the room…

— Susanna Clarke

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is…

— Dennis Prager

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this…

— Joseph McCarthy

Kim Jong Il made his staff call him “dear” and spent the day drinking cognac. It's like I have a twin, ladies…

— David Letterman

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine…

— William Hazlitt

“The real reason why any man becomes a gentleman is because of a woman who is truly in touch with her own…

— Lebo Grand

Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a…

— Anonymous

Mona knocked at the wrong time. “Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- ” Mona shouted through the door. “Room service, gentlemen. Just pull…

— Armistead Maupin

“Why look'e, young gentleman," said Toby, "when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means…

— Charles Dickens

I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day,…

— Farah Diba

The soul and body are joint-sharers in every thing they get: A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the…

— Laurence Sterne

I was raised by my mom. She taught me how to be a gentleman; nobody in the movies taught me. I think…

— Todd Phillips

Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection…

— Dianne Feinstein

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

— Branch Rickey

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

— Herbert Spencer

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

— Samuel Johnson

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

— William Shakespeare

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

— George Sanders

I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

— Justin Bieber

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

— Stanley Baldwin

“An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.”

— Will Self

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

— Charles II of England

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

— Thomas Huxley

Gentleman, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man.

— Mark Driscoll

Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.

— Bob Backlund

Never chase a man...because a real gentleman would never make you run in heels.

— Anonymous

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

— August Kekule

It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.

— Athenaeus