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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
A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent ... sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.
— John Quincy Adams
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
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
— E. M. Forster
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
— William Faulkner
do I look like the kind of girl to lie back demurely so my gentleman friend can politely slip his penis inside my vagina? I think not." He
— E.J. Shortall
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
— Victor Hugo
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
— Paul Morphy
Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.
— Bob Backlund
If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well.""If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer. — Marissa Meyer
I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman.
— Dean Martin
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.
— Puzant Kevork Thomajan
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
— Rudyard Kipling
I am infinitely more touched by your extreme generosity than with the inhumanity of that gentleman
— Voltaire
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
As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can't guarantee I'm going to be a complete gentleman about it.
— Meredith Wild
The gentleman is a man of truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be a gentleman, Lucas. No tying her up on the first date.
— Melanie Harlow
A king fortifies himself with a castle," observed the Count, "a gentleman with a desk." As
— Amor Towles
It would be my pleasure to leave the gentleman at the door and fuck you four ways dirty.
— Vi Keeland
Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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
A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth.Lucien Fairchild — Mary Jo Putney
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 2008 Canadian CEO of the year, Frank DAngelo.
— Terence Corcoran
I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
— Truman Capote
The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
— Anna Kendrick
The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.
— H.P. Lovecraft
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
— John Keegan
Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.
— George Axelrod
What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.
— Joyce Rachelle
He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.
— Michael Dibdin
The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.
— Sydney Biddle Barrows
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
— Confucius
If I weren't a gentleman, I would pound you into the ground right now. He unfisted his hands in order to dismiss the temptation.
— Nicole Castro
she's a lady, my lord. And you know as well as anyone that I am the furthest thing from being a gentleman you'll ever meet." Throughout
— Catherine Gayle
Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
— Walter Savage Landor
This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
— William Lyon Phelps
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
— Charles De Gaulle
The definition of a gentleman is a man who enters a revolving door in front of you and exits behind you.
— Chloe Thurlow
Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.
— Thomas Noon Talfourd
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
— Walter Bagehot
Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men
— Daniel O'Connell
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
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
Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.
— Samuel Johnson
A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.
— Peter Cave
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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
The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.
— George Everett Macdonald
The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!
— William Shirley
I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman.
— Christopher Buehlman
I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.
— Anne Rice
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
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
That would be the gentleman lobster,
— C.J. Hauser
Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.
— Confucius
Did he touch you? Hurt you?" Jeb whispers in the silence."No. He was a gentleman."
Jeb frowns. "You mean a gentleroach . — A.G. Howard
He turned out the lamp and left the room, his body in agony. Sometimes, it was absolute hell to be agentleman. — Laura Lee Guhrke
What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
— Wendelin Van Draanen
I always say South America's the only place where you cut a gentleman his suit one week and see his statue wearing it the next.
— John Le Carre
He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.
— Shirley Maclaine
I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.
— Jussie Smollett
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
— George Bernard Shaw
Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
— Duke Of Wellington
He had waited until I had my door open, then driven away. The perfect gentleman. Sort of like Dracula just before he drank your blood.
— Toni Andrews
Like a proper gentleman, the good captain never made mention of the undergarment murder.
— Gail Carriger
These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.
— Winston Churchill
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness ... played the calm and virtuous old men.
— Charles Dickens
It's amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players.
— Jon Champion
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
— Arthur Smith
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social powerthe gentleman. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
