“An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.” — Will Self Copy Share Image
“An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.” — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
My dad was a proper old English gentleman, even though he was from the Caribbean. He used to stand up and salute… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord. — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
“Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
I had always loved the look of the old English gentleman who dressed in class and style, who knew what he was… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is a duality with Stath, which is that he probably wishes he was an English gentleman deep down - but he… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
“My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth, we’re going to have to stop.” Elizabeth’s swirling senses began to return to reality, slowly at first, and then with a… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“Clovis straightened himself. He squared his shoulders. He tossed back his curls. Then slowly, with immense dignity, he climbed the cellar steps.… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I get very annoyed when people think I'm nice or diffident or a polite English gentleman. I'm a nasty piece of work,… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
