Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Luigi Pirandello

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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.
James F. Cooper

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
Jessica Hahn

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

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

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

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.
Henry Laurens

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.
Randy Neugebauer

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.
Ann Robinson

He is every other inch a gentleman.
Rebecca West

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Robert Burns

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.
Ricardo Montalban

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
James Payn

I am at heart a gentleman.
Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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.
Kevin Spacey

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
Vince Gill

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Anthony Trollope