21 quotes about Gentlemen

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

Allen, Fred A.

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

Ashford, Daisy

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

Dickens, Charles

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Douglass, Frederick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.

Fox, Edward

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

Mackenzie, Compton

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Mellon, Andrew William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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.

Merriman, H. Seton

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Phelps, William Lyon

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

Pirandello, Luigi

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Proverb, English

A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

Unknown, Source

He is every other inch a gentleman.

West, Rebecca

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Wilde, Oscar