Quotes about gentlemen

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

Allen, Fred A. on gentlemen   

"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 on gentlemen   

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

Dickens, Charles on gentlemen
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"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

Dickens, Charles on gentlemen
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"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 on gentlemen   

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

Douglass, Frederick on gentlemen   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on gentlemen   

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

Fox, Edward on gentlemen   

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

Mackenzie, Compton on gentlemen   

"Gentlemen prefer bonds."

Mellon, Andrew William on gentlemen   

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

Mencken, H. L. on gentlemen
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"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 on gentlemen   

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

Newman, Cardinal J. on gentlemen   

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

Oliphant, Margaret on gentlemen   

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

Phelps, William Lyon on gentlemen
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"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."

Pirandello, Luigi on gentlemen
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"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 on gentlemen   

"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him."

Proverb, English on gentlemen   

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

Unknown, Source on gentlemen
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"He is every other inch a gentleman."

West, Rebecca on gentlemen   

"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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