Gentleman Quotes

845 Gentleman quotes by 583 unique authors

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. — Xunzi
Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition… — Randy Neugebauer
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las… — Otis Blackwell
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. — King James I
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. — Stanley Baldwin
No lady is ever a gentleman. — James Branch Cabell
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same. — Xunzi
Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never… — Ricardo Montalban
The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one. — Charles Tupper
John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life. — Jennifer O'Neill
Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman. — Jessica Hahn
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. — John Keegan
A gentleman can live through anything. — William Faulkner
The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman. — Sydney Biddle Barrows
I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman. — Christopher Parker
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that… — George Eliot
Gentleman, God created you with the heart of a warrior. Until there’s something you’re willing to die for, you can’t truly live. — Craig Groeschel
It's amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players. — Unknown Author
One day while Lloyd George was making a political speech before a big crowd, a heckler yelled, "Wait a minute, Mr. George. Isn't it true… — David Lloyd George
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open,… — John Aubrey
It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it… — Henry John Stephen Smith
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has… — Ambrose Bierce
PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. — Ambrose Bierce
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. — Oliver Goldsmith

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