Gentleman Quotes

845 Gentleman quotes by 583 unique authors

I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear… — Pete Stark
Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy. — Nelly Kaplan
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina… — James Payn
Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold… — Vincent Canby
I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all. — Mollie King
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. — Caleb Cushing
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. — Unknown Author
Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room. — George Axelrod
I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly… — Daisy Ashford
It is possible that blondes also prefer gentleman. — Mamie Van Doren
I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman. — Vince Gill
In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This… — Virginia Graham
I'd like to name my kid a whole phrase. You know, something like Ladies and Gentlemen. That'll be a cool name for a kid. This… — Louis C. K.
From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny… — W.N.P. Barbellion
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. — Robert Smith Surtees
Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded. — Jean Plaidy
Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state. — George Mason
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity. — Oliver Cromwell
You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care… — Eric Massa
Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by… — John Gibson Paton
A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to… — Quentin Crisp
A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and… — Confucius
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. — Robert Burns
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. — Fisher Ames

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