Gentlemen Quotes

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

Men of courage, men of sense, and men of letters are frequent; but a true gentleman is what one seldom sees.

A gentleman can live through anything.

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

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
Margaret Oliphant

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

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
Compton Mackenzie

He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles -- that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.
H. Seton Merriman

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

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

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

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

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

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

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
English Proverbs

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

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

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

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

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.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

The gentleman is a Christian product.
George Henry Calvert







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