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Gentleman Quotes

Gentleman Definition  
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No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
Keith Miller

No lady is ever a gentleman.
James Branch Cabell

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

Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.
Earl Blumenauer

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

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Samuel Richardson

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.
Louis Kronenberger

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

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.
Charles Perrault

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

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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
Charles Tupper

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

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

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

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
Sydney Biddle Barrows

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.
Phil Mickelson

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
Richard H. Davis

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