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Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.
— Samuel Garth
A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.
— Russell Lynes
A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.
— Karen Armstrong
I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.
— Robin Thicke
I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.
— Henry James
Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.
— Thomas Gainsborough
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
— Vern Buchanan
Gentlemen do not carry a cane or a hat? No gloves?"
"Gentleman may still wear them, but I'm afraid the problem is that there aren't many left. — Camilla Isley
"Gentleman may still wear them, but I'm afraid the problem is that there aren't many left. — Camilla Isley
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
— Lana Turner
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
— William Faulkner
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
— Oscar Wilde
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
— Denis Diderot
With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.
— Agatha Christie
Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.
— Erez Lieberman Aiden
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
— Keith Miller
Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket ...
— Ambrose Bierce
And now over there is a gentleman who should not wear tight pantaloons. You will see when he turns around. There. That is why.
— Jude Morgan
Had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner!
— Jane Austen
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
— William Hazlitt
Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just
he was a worthless shred of human debris ... — Rush Limbaugh
he was a worthless shred of human debris ... — Rush Limbaugh
A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.
— Jack Dempsey
I don't plan to be a gentleman about this Victoria. He doesn't want you - he doesn't want anyone - an I do." ~ Sebastian
— Colleen Gleason
Or was the entire idea of the "gentleman" a farce?
— Tiffany Reisz
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.
— Daisy Ashford
I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.
— John Schneider
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
— Charles Dickens
A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?
— Marquis De Sade
I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.
— Jussie Smollett
The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.
— George Everett Macdonald
Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized.
— Donald Glover
A Gentleman is a prime example of what a man should be.
— Pontius Joseph
A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.
— Alexandre Dumas
Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.
— Srinivas Shenoy
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
— Charlie Chaplin
A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
— Louisa May Alcott
'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
I'm a gentleman.
— Rod Stewart
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
— John Bercow
No, I am not a lady,' she said sadly. 'I never shall be. But he's a gentleman, and that - makes it - O how difficult for me!
— Thomas Hardy
It was the act of a gentleman, and Damian was as gentle as a cactus.
— Aishabella Sheikh
A gentleman is just a patient wolf.
— Lara Turner
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.
— Leo Tolstoy
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
A lifelong disciple of Lord Chesterfield's maxim that a gentleman was free to do anything he pleased as long as he did it with style.
— Joseph J. Ellis
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
— Elizabeth Peters
Be a gentleman, and do it gently.
— Himmilicious
I read that a gentleman gives a lady flowers, and I thought maybe I'm not a gentleman, but no reason not to treat you like a lady.
— Shannon Hale
Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!
— Harper Lee
The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.
— H.L. Mencken
You are mistaken; he is not a gentleman but a sir. Just a sir. For a gentleman is grander and a rare acquaintance.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
— Nick Cave
He is a gentleman!
[He's a player.] — Ellen Hopkins
[He's a player.] — Ellen Hopkins
If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.
— Jeff Foxworthy
A true gentleman has no vices, but he allows you your own.
— Michael Shaara
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
— George Bernard Shaw
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
— Charles Dickens
If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
— Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston - The Last Emperor
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
— Branch Rickey
Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?
— Cora Carmack
A gentleman does not boast about his junk.
— Emily Post
God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created.
— Irving Stone
Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, "a gentleman couldn't go into politics." But,
— Edith Wharton
He looked like a pleasant gentleman and he irritated Georgina, so Miranda was inclined to like him.
— Kristi Ann Hunter
You are a gentleman, sir,' muttered Cosca. 'I am a murderer.' 'I see no reason why a man cannot be both . . .
— Joe Abercrombie
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
— Herbert Spencer
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
— Thomas Huxley
Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.
— William Hazlitt
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
— Thomas Day
The Thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. — William Shakespeare
A prosperous gentleman; and to be King
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. — William Shakespeare
A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.
— Paul G. Hoffman
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
— William Howard Taft