Gentleman Quote by William Hazlitt Download Open image “The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.” — William Hazlitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gentleman Littles Looks Reflection Self-Awareness World
The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“See the difference between the impression a man makes on you when you walk by his side in familiar talk, or look at him… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty… — Confucius Copy Share Image
That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Like this, Rook.” Ford’s soft words vibrate into me. “I like you. I’d like to show you how much, actually. I’m being a gentleman… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind whose ends… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image