Quotes about gentlemen

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

— Fred A. Allen

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

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

— Charles Dickens

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

— Charles Dickens

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

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

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Edward Fox

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

— Compton Mackenzie

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

— Andrew William Mellon

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

— H. L. Mencken

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.

— H. Seton Merriman

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

— Cardinal J. Newman

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

— Margaret Oliphant

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

— William Lyon Phelps

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

— Luigi Pirandello

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

— English Proverb

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

— Source Unknown

He is every other inch a gentleman.

— Rebecca West

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

— Oscar Wilde