Quotes about Gentleman



      “The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.”
- Robert S. Surtees

       “A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.”
- Anonymous

       “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde


       “Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.”
- Anonymous

       “A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.”
Oscar Wilde


       “A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw

       “Come on, gentleman; let us drink to our stupidity.” 
- Santosh Kalwar
      “A fashionable gentleman who much concerns himself with the fashions of gentlemen is neither fashionable nor a gentleman.”
-Stewart Alsop

        “A legal gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it himself.”
- Vaux

      “The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”
- Anonymous

        “A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.”
- H. L. Mencken


      “The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.”
- Charles Dickens


      “It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.”
- Cardinal J. Newman

       “A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass


       “Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke

      “A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.” 
- Haruki Murakami

       “Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?” 
- Cora Carmack

       “With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck

       “The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
Stanley Baldwin



       “Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.”
- Marlene Dietrich


      “Gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”
- Anonymous


      “It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman

       “I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
Little Richard

       “I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.
Jason Mraz

       “Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


      “I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.
Joe Wilson

      “I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
King James


       “The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.”
- Puzant Kevork Thomajan

        “We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

       “A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.”
- Robert E. Lee
 
        “He is the best gentleman who is the son of his own deserts.”
- Victor Hugo  

       “He that bears himself like a gentleman, is Worth to have been born a gentleman.”
- Chapman      

       “Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.”
- Talfourd

      “ 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.”
- Hazlitt   

        “A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.”
- Chesterfield   

 
       “I think that Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium, is a perfect gentleman. If he be not, then I am unable to describe a gentleman.”
- Anonymous

       “Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
- Charles

      “Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.”
- Edmund Burke

       “Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.”
- Thorstein Veblen

       “I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.”
- George Bernard Shaw