Gentleman Quotes

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

Feelings, Hurts, Anyone

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

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Lana Turner

Patient, Simply, Wolf

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, Courtesy, Mark

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

Lonely, Adventure, Dreamer

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

Good, Stupid, Person

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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money, Real, Everything

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

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.
Charlie Chaplin

Giving, Serious, Around

I am at heart a gentleman.
Marlene Dietrich

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
Benjamin Disraeli

Away, Himself, Left

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

Education, Good, Him

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Bible, Depends

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps

Respect, Him, Service

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.
Anna Kendrick

Good, Someone, Game

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

Through, Others, Ability

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

Wrong, Might, Dignity

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.
Lord Byron

Business, Him, Fall

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Rude, Purpose, Sober

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler

Attitude, Business, Integrity

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.
Sharon Stone

Respect, Give, Flowers

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Eyes, Present, Toward

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.
Katie Price

Death, Sick, Bastards

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
Kong Fu Zi

Words, Deeds, Ashamed

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

Education, Enough, University

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

Mean, Prayer, Getting

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.
Hugh Jackman

Dad, Selfish, True

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.
Phyllis McGinley

Brain, Her, She

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