Gentleman Quotes · Page 17

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

— Oscar Wilde

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

— Lewis Carroll

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

— Daniel O'Connell

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

— Mollie King

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.

— Catherine the Great

I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.

— Neil Innes

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

— Edward Gibbon

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

— Anonymous

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature,…

— William Shenstone

That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a…

— Mabel Osgood Wright

Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see…

— Dennis Prager

I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did…

— Wilfrid Laurier

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation…

— Robert Mugabe

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Yet a gentleman may not keep a public house; may he?' said I. 'Not on any account,' returned Herbert; 'but a public-house…

— Charles Dickens

I've become close with Masoud Esmaeilpour and consider him a friend. We send each other messages from time to time on Instagram,…

— Jordan Burroughs

For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen…

— Patrick O'Brian

“A gentleman can’t let a lady sleep in an armchair while he takes his ease in a bed.” “But you are not…

— Christina Brooke

From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we…

— William Shakespeare

The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they…

— Jeff VanderMeer

A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect.…

— Fanny Jackson Coppin

“He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentleman who embrace opposite sides of the question;…

— Henry Fielding

In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived…

— Sabina Murray

Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon

— William Shakespeare

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.

— Troy Polamalu

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.

— Brett Favre

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

— Winston Churchill

“An arrogant man needs to humble himself as a boy, to be a gentleman.”

— Anthony Liccione

“I’m so old school I’m like a one-room schoolhouse—with no bathroom. I always keep it classy.”

— Jarod Kintz

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

— Pete Rose

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

— Henri Rousseau

“Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”

— Marquis De Sade

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

— Mason Cooley

“A man who is a gentleman in his cups may be trusted to be a gentleman at all times.”

— Anthony Trollope

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.

— Bill Vaughan

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

— Fisher Ames