Quotes about Gentleman

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. Votes: 4

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. Votes: 4

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. Votes: 4

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. Votes: 4

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win. Votes: 4

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl. Votes: 4

Gentleman, this is a football. Votes: 3

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman. Votes: 3

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman. Votes: 3

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity. Votes: 3

Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS. Votes: 3

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over. Votes: 3

Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault. Votes: 3

Gentleman, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man. Votes: 3

A Gentleman attracts the attention of many, but only has eyes for his own lady. Votes: 3

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it. Votes: 3

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise. Votes: 3

When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard. Votes: 3

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. Votes: 3

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. Votes: 3

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. Votes: 3

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station. Votes: 3

How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research. Votes: 3

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years. Votes: 3

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts. Votes: 3

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy. Votes: 3

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent. Votes: 3

The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman (David Cameron) may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist. Votes: 3

I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is. Votes: 3

I'm a southern gentleman. Votes: 2

The devil is a gentleman. Votes: 2

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman. Votes: 2

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. Votes: 2

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. Votes: 2

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. Votes: 2

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman. Votes: 2

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. Votes: 2

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. Votes: 2

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. Votes: 2

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. Votes: 2

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. Votes: 2

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. Votes: 2

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. Votes: 2

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. Votes: 2

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Votes: 2

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. Votes: 2

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman. Votes: 2

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Votes: 2

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. Votes: 2

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. Votes: 2

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. Votes: 2

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. Votes: 2

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. Votes: 2

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. Votes: 2

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. Votes: 2

Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots. Votes: 2

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. Votes: 2

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman. Votes: 2

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. Votes: 2

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. Votes: 2

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. Votes: 2

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. Votes: 2

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. Votes: 2

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country. Votes: 2

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train. Votes: 2

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 treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect. Votes: 2

He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance. Votes: 2

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you? Votes: 2

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days. Votes: 2

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters. Votes: 2

My dog's a gentleman. Votes: 0

Be a gentleman farmer. Votes: 0

A gentleman never offends unintentionally Votes: 0

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. Votes: 0

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman can live through anything. Votes: 0

I was always the Southern gentleman. Votes: 0

No gentleman ever has any money. Votes: 0

Every student must be a gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell Votes: 0

I am at heart a gentleman. Votes: 0

No lady is ever a gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything Votes: 0

Hate is for sissies. Fight makes gentleman. Votes: 0

Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady. Votes: 0

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman never talks about his tailor. Votes: 0

God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes Votes: 0

He is every other inch a gentleman. Votes: 0

A true gentleman never leaves his lady. Votes: 0

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman is never in a hurry. Votes: 0

The prince of darkness is a gentleman! Votes: 0

Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman. Votes: 0

The gentleman is a man of truth. Votes: 0

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal. Votes: 0

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid. Votes: 0

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentleman. Votes: 0

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended. Votes: 0

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman. Votes: 0

Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow? Votes: 0

A gentleman does not boast about his junk. Votes: 0

The devil is and always has been a gentleman Votes: 0

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life. Votes: 0

A gentleman can never have too many bow ties. Votes: 0

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene. Votes: 0

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress. Votes: 0

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'. Votes: 0

A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally. Votes: 0

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do. Votes: 0

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady. Votes: 0

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man. Votes: 0

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally Votes: 0

The gentleman will sit! The gentleman is correct in sitting! Votes: 0

Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized. Votes: 0

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude. Votes: 0

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak. Votes: 0

I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want. Votes: 0

My brother is not a girl, he is a gentleman. Votes: 0

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. Votes: 0

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. Votes: 0

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman. Votes: 0

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne! Votes: 0

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. Votes: 0

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting. Votes: 0

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. Votes: 0

A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others. Votes: 0

The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. Votes: 0

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman. Votes: 0

An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men. Votes: 0

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh. Votes: 0

A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds. Votes: 0

A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish. Votes: 0

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh. Votes: 0

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich. Votes: 0

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy. Votes: 0

A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay. Votes: 0

A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act. Votes: 0

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman. Votes: 0

... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing; Votes: 0

Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Votes: 0

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action. Votes: 0

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words. Votes: 0

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. Votes: 0

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't. Votes: 0

The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action. Votes: 0

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast. Votes: 0

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman. Votes: 0

Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are. Votes: 0

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. Votes: 0

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. Votes: 0

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. Votes: 0

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. Votes: 0

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. Votes: 0

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. Votes: 0

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality . Votes: 0

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way. Votes: 0

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman. Votes: 0

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one. Votes: 0

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards. Votes: 0

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon. Votes: 0

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. Votes: 0

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. Votes: 0

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today. Votes: 0

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. Votes: 0

A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires. Votes: 0

He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady. Votes: 0

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature. Votes: 0

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable. Votes: 0

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father. Votes: 0

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty. Votes: 0

I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. Votes: 0

Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. Votes: 0

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be. Votes: 0

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. Votes: 0

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. Votes: 0

Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman Votes: 0

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist. Votes: 0

A true gentleman doesn't prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn't have any preferences whatsoever. Votes: 0

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior. Votes: 0

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman. Votes: 0

Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations. Votes: 0

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. Votes: 0

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands. Votes: 0

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences. Votes: 0

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. Votes: 0

Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just--he was a worthless shred of human debris... Votes: 0

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. Votes: 0

A gentleman holds my hand.A man pulls my hair.A soulmate will do both. Votes: 0

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor. Votes: 0

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily. Votes: 0

I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial. Votes: 0

I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran Votes: 0

It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine. Votes: 0

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times. Votes: 0

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her. Votes: 0

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. Votes: 0

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature. Votes: 0

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance. Votes: 0

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman. Votes: 0

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,Good Kate; I am a gentleman. Votes: 0

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off. Votes: 0

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me. Votes: 0

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity. Votes: 0

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were. Votes: 0

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one. Votes: 0

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches. Votes: 0

My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have. Votes: 0

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit. Votes: 0

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity. Votes: 0

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. Votes: 0

Hmmm... that's interesting.""What?""There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun. Votes: 0

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman. Votes: 0

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. Votes: 0

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.' Votes: 0

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. Votes: 0

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman. Votes: 0

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman. Votes: 0

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. Votes: 0

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too. Votes: 0

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman. Votes: 0

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men. Votes: 0

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. Votes: 0

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. Votes: 0

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman. Votes: 0

I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field. Votes: 0

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world. Votes: 0

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. Votes: 0

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one. Votes: 0

The English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Votes: 0

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. Votes: 0

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman. Votes: 0

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman. Votes: 0

The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman. Votes: 0

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. Votes: 0

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. Votes: 0

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room. Votes: 0

I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman. Votes: 0

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. Votes: 0

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself. Votes: 0

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16) Votes: 0

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence. Votes: 0

Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring. Votes: 0

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. Votes: 0

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman. Votes: 0

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ... Votes: 0

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady. Votes: 0

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman. Votes: 0

This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself. Votes: 0

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast. Votes: 0

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. Votes: 0

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet. Votes: 0

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot. Votes: 0

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it. Votes: 0

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno? Votes: 0

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. Votes: 0

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom. Votes: 0

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman. Votes: 0

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both. Votes: 0

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. Votes: 0

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. Votes: 0

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all. Votes: 0

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman. Votes: 0

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. Votes: 0

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way. Votes: 0

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part. Votes: 0

My father always used to say "˜treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.' Votes: 0

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. Votes: 0

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. Votes: 0

If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck. Votes: 0

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman. Votes: 0

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance. Votes: 0

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. Votes: 0

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. Votes: 0

Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough. Votes: 0

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. Votes: 0

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player. Votes: 0

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. Votes: 0

The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility. Votes: 0

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too. Votes: 0

The wind held the door open for me, and I appreciated it. Who knew the breeze was such a southern gentleman? Votes: 0

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. Votes: 0

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety. Votes: 0

A gentleman knows when to listen, when to comment, and when to simply hold his woman and kiss her tears away. Votes: 0

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company. Votes: 0

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman. Votes: 0

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. Votes: 0

Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture. Votes: 0

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman. Votes: 0

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. Votes: 0

Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle Votes: 0

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified. Votes: 0

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same. Votes: 0

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth. Votes: 0

I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

We can't be lovers because we both have mustaches. But since you're a lady, and I'm a gentleman, I'll shave mine off. Votes: 0

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God. Votes: 0

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience. Votes: 0

The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country. Votes: 0

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth. Votes: 0

a gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.. Votes: 0

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. Votes: 0

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat. Votes: 0

But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes. Votes: 0

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs. Votes: 0

How would I treat a girl if she was my girlfriend? I`m a really affectionate person and I like being a gentleman. Votes: 0

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera. Votes: 0

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. Votes: 0

The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must. Votes: 0

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life. Votes: 0

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me. Votes: 0

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman. Votes: 0

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral. Votes: 0

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet. Votes: 0

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. Votes: 0

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life. Votes: 0

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard. Votes: 0

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog. Votes: 0

I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date! Votes: 0

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale. Votes: 0

The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor. Votes: 0

The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George. Votes: 0

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code. Votes: 0

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman. Votes: 0

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree. Votes: 0

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her. Votes: 0

I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job. Votes: 0

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is. Votes: 0

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink. Votes: 0

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side. Votes: 0

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house. Votes: 0

You're a gentleman,” they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman. Votes: 0

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London. Votes: 0

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit. Votes: 0

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most. Votes: 0

don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way. Votes: 0

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. Votes: 0

Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind. Votes: 0

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest. Votes: 0

No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn't want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted. Sorry for that sir. Votes: 0

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition. Votes: 0

HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO! Votes: 0

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal. Votes: 0

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls. Votes: 0

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character. Votes: 0

George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries. Votes: 0

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. Votes: 0

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy. Votes: 0

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 work again. Votes: 0

Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes. Votes: 0

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this. Votes: 0

Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs. Votes: 0

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 in the morning. Votes: 0

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 notice it. Votes: 0

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. Votes: 0

Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. Votes: 0

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor," said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public". Votes: 0

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency. Votes: 0

What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder. Votes: 0

Steve Burton, I adore. He's got the overall picture. He's wise beyond his years. He's not overwhelmed, and he's not in awe. He's a gentleman. And a hunk. Votes: 0

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves. Votes: 0

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment. Votes: 0

My Grandmother would say, 'Make sure you look good. Make sure you speak well. Make sure you remain that Southern gentleman that I've taught you to be.' Votes: 0

If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well." "If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer. Votes: 0

Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics. Votes: 0

Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.". Votes: 0

An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them. Votes: 0

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications. Votes: 0

I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results. Votes: 0

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest. Votes: 0

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar? Votes: 0

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own. Votes: 0

Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her. Votes: 0

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear. Votes: 0

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. Votes: 0

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. Votes: 0

As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say. Votes: 0

Chivalry is not dead and you should be a gentleman. But if you are going to buy a girl a drink, buy it. Don't just offer it. Follow through. Votes: 0

Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it. Votes: 0

Where is your boy tonight, I hope he is a gentleman. Maybe he won't find out what I know, you were the last good thing about this part of town. Votes: 0

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores. Votes: 0

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect. Votes: 0

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either. Votes: 0

For Faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into unity. After these comes whatever else makes up a Christian gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life. Votes: 0

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman. Votes: 0

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way. Votes: 0

When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot. Votes: 0

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman. Votes: 0

As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine. Votes: 0

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 of one man and one woman. Votes: 0

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne Votes: 0

Well I'm finding it harderto be a gentleman every dayAll the manners that I've been taughthave slowly died awayBut if I held the door open for youIt wouldn't make your day. Votes: 0

In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman Votes: 0

I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style. Votes: 0

The young gentleman is correct," he said. Halt raised an eyebrow. "He may be correct, and he is undoubtedly young. But he's no gentleman." ~Halt and General Sapristi speaking of Will Votes: 0

If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman. Votes: 0

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty. Votes: 0

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn. Votes: 0

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective. Votes: 0

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings. Votes: 0

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman. Votes: 0

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman. Votes: 0

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run Votes: 0

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return. Votes: 0

The guard looked from one to the other. His mind was soon made up. His training led him to despise foreigners, and to respect and admire well-dressed gentleman who travelled first class. Votes: 0

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad. Votes: 0

He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was. Votes: 0

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style. Votes: 0

All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking Votes: 0

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more." Votes: 0

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions. Votes: 0

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman. Votes: 0

The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief. Votes: 0

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 faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman. Votes: 0

As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant. Votes: 0

In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to the sort of cunning incompatible with any kind of idealism. Votes: 0

There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art. Votes: 0

Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these sharp pencils, ideal for stabbing, and he's been a perfect gentleman. Votes: 0

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else. Votes: 0

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else. Votes: 0

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science. Votes: 0

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den. Votes: 0

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him. Votes: 0

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act. Votes: 0

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. Votes: 0

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; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas. Votes: 0

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman. Votes: 0

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism. Votes: 0

Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer. Votes: 0

I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father. Votes: 0

Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting. Votes: 0

Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never would. Votes: 0

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 regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one. Votes: 0

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money. Votes: 0

Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman. Votes: 0

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity. Votes: 0

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts. Votes: 0

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner. Votes: 0

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart. Votes: 0

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass. Votes: 0