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Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death. — Samuel Garth

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

Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes. — Anita Loos

CHAPTER IX CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS — Charles Dickens

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

This young gentleman was like something from out of a leather-bound book! — Lindsay Eland

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

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable. — Confucius

She will change the world someday, her cure of love in a world gone mad; is the gentle kind of touch that will teach women to grow and men to rise. — Nikki Rowe

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't. — Mark Twain

I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini]. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman. — Bram Stoker

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. — Oscar Wilde

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it. — John Ruskin

Hate is for sissies.
Fight makes gentleman. — Toba Beta

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games
they should play go[3] — Confucius

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter. — Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature. — Denis Diderot

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel."
(Analects 2.12) — Confucius

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. — W. H. Auden

I am infinitely more touched by your extreme generosity than with the inhumanity of that gentleman — Voltaire

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

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. — J.G. Holland

If you show me a lady, I'll show you a gentleman; show me a bitch, and I'll show you a G. — K'wan

Had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner! — Jane Austen

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

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

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman. — Jack Dempsey

He looked like a pleasant gentleman and he irritated Georgina, so Miranda was inclined to like him. — Kristi Ann Hunter

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

The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen, — Herb Brooks

An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one. — Maya Rodale

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. — Thomas Day

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. — Herbert Spencer

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. — Anne Rice

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. — Jane Austen

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn. — Neil Innes

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

I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned. — John Schneider

young gentleman with whom she's been osculating on — Jonathan Franzen

Or was the entire idea of the "gentleman" a farce? — Tiffany Reisz

A gentleman does not boast about his junk. — Emily Post

The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit."
(Analects 4.16) — Confucius

Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow? — Cora Carmack

Gallantry is gentleman's quality. — Toba Beta

A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.
The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side. — Confucius

Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen. — Anita Loos

A gentleman never talks about his tailor. — Nick Cave

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting. — Confucius

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes. — Honore De Balzac

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world. — Tom Ford

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

A gentleman is just a patient wolf. — Lara Turner

This man was no pampered gentleman, born to a life of softness. No, this man was a brawler, a scrapper, a street fighter. A survivor. — V.E. Lynne

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 can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. — Confucius

Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth

He is a gentleman!

[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

That would be the gentleman lobster, — C.J. Hauser

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. — George Bernard Shaw

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor. — Confucius

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently. — Ernest Rutherford

Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away. — Julia Quinn

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. — Charles Dickens

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

Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him. — Mark Gatiss

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is. — Confucius

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. — Thomas Huxley

Your son is no gentleman. He refused to have sex with me." Suzy — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy. — Jussie Smollett

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak. — Michael Clarke

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 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

You are a gentleman, sir,' muttered Cosca. 'I am a murderer.' 'I see no reason why a man cannot be both . . . — Joe Abercrombie

Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman. — Guy Vanderhaeghe

A gentleman's brain must be treated gently and never overburdened. It gets so little exercise. We don't want it strained. — Jayne Fresina

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman. — H.L. Mencken

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified. — Confucius

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. — Leo Tolstoy

A gentleman? How quaint. Not everything in a lady's life revolves around a man, — Daphne Du Bois

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