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A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. — Russell Lynes

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own. — William Maxwell

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

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man. — Winston Churchill

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

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable. — Confucius

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman. — Herbert Spencer

What will always be better than a man, is a
Gentleman. — Pontius Joseph

A man who is a gentleman in his cups may be trusted to be a gentleman at all times. — Anthony Trollope

Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring. — Bob Backlund

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this. — Confucius

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

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. — Robert Smith Surtees

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both. — Alessandra Torre

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

The gentleman is a man of truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman. — Jack Dempsey

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality . — Silvio Berlusconi

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

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too. — Madonna Ciccone

She is young and beautiful. She has no problems with men. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same. — Xun Zi

My dear man, a gourmand is a gentleman with the talent and fortitude to continue eating even when he is not hungry. — Richard C. Morais

Gentleman, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man. — Mark Driscoll

What is a gentleman, anyway?
He's a man who prefers the first edition of a book to the last edition of a newspaper. — F Scott Fitzgerald

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor. — Henri Rousseau

An arrogant man needs to humble himself as a boy, to be a gentleman. — Anthony Liccione

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London. — Charles Kingsley

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture. — Seth D.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be. — Winston Churchill

One of the true tests to tell if a man's been raised right and is a gentleman is whether he stands when a lady enters the room - or — Lisa Shearin

I must forever imagine myself comparing every man I meet to Mr. Darcy and finding the otherwise worthy gentleman wanting. — P.O. Dixon

A Man can Choose what he wants to be. A Gentleman doesn't have a Choice. — M.G. Hardie

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman. — H.L. Mencken

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom. — Lord Chesterfield

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. — George Bernard Shaw

A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires. — Elisabeth Elliot

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

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code. — Gelett Burgess

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

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

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

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

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

Can't trust a man with only half his teeth, the gentleman agrees. They — Rae Carson

What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder. — Lester Cole

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

A Gentleman is a prime example of what a man should be. — Pontius Joseph

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

The Master said, The gentleman harmonizes [he] without being an echo. The petty man echoes [tong] and does not harmonize. — Confucius

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly. — A Gentleman

The definition of a gentleman is a man who enters a revolving door in front of you and exits behind you. — Chloe Thurlow

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. — Mark Twain

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman. — John Wayne

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said. — William Faulkner

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power
the gentleman. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man makes his own destiny. Despite being a woman, she makes Man, a Gentleman. — Vikrmn

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

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

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno? — Pete Rose

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

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