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What will always be better than a man, is a
Gentleman. -- Pontius Joseph
Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken. -- Eden Phillpotts
The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate. -- Fanny Jackson Coppin
To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off. -- Murray Kempton
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I'm the best kind of gentleman, darlin'. I'm polite in public and filthy in private." I -- Emma Hart
I want a gentleman. Someone with manners. -- Olivia Culpo
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity. -- Livy
I was a gentleman over everything. An ass-appreciating gentleman. We are the finest kind of man. I should open my own ass-appreciating gentleman's club one day. -- Karina Halle
A gentleman is just a patient wolf. -- Lara Turner
He is a gentleman!
[He's a player.] -- Ellen Hopkins
The greater man the greater courtesy. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
He's no kind of gentleman.
That's all right. I'm no kind of lady. -- Caitlin Kittredge
This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one. -- George Sanders
God is a gentleman. -- Joe Orton
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. -- Mark Twain
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires. -- Elisabeth Elliot
A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting. -- Confucius
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. -- Augustus Hare
The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman. -- Ne-Yo
The greater the man the greater the courtesy. -- Alfred The Great
Gentlemen do not work. Since I do not work, therefore I must be a gentleman. -- Mary Jo Putney
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. -- Louisa May Alcott
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. -- Lana Turner
A gentleman is not a pot. -- Confucius
Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow? -- Cora Carmack
The devil is a gentleman. -- William Shakespeare
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman. -- William Shenstone
Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man ... such a man is a true gentleman. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. -- King James I
The Master said, "A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with."
(Analects 4.9) -- Confucius
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. -- Benjamin Disraeli
About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return. -- Robert Graves
Oscar Wilde once defined a gentleman as one who never insulted somebody else accidentally. -- Douglas Wilson
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. -- Robert Smith Surtees
There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win. -- Len Goodman
Who's he kidding? He's no gentleman. He has my panties -- E.l. James
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. -- Anthony Trollope
The gentleman is a man of truth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. -- Charles Dickens
I'm a southern gentleman. -- Jamie Foxx
Calling a person 'sir' can often help you get what you want, unless of course the person is a woman. -- Lemony Snicket
A gentleman never offends unintentionally -- Oscar Wilde
I can be a perfect gentleman. If that's what you want. -- B. J. Daniels
We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times. -- Robert E.lee
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. -- Puzant Kevork Thomajan
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity. -- Oliver Cromwell
He's a closet gentleman, -- Gena Showalter
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ... -- Catherine The Great
You ought to be looking where you're going."
"A gentleman would offer his hand right now."
...
"Eadlyn, you've never thought I was a gentleman."
"True. -- Kiera Cass
The prince of darkness is a gentleman! -- William Shakespeare
I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him. -- Charles Dickens
My brother is not a girl, he is a
gentleman. -- Melanie Marquez
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman. -- Edmund Burke
You can't expect any woman to be a lady if you're not being a gentleman, and vice versa. -- N.b. Roberts
Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men. -- Ellen J. Barrier
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings. -- William Hazlitt
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. -- John Henry Newman
A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay. -- Confucius
Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized. -- Donald Glover
To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome. -- Pierre Daninos
He is every other inch a gentleman. -- Rebecca West
Jimmy: I hope you won't make the mistake of thinking for one moment that I am a gentleman. -- John Osborne
The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world. -- William Hazlitt
A man who is a gentleman in his cups may be trusted to be a gentleman at all times. -- Anthony Trollope
I've always been of the belief that gentlemen need to earn respect. -- Jen Turano
Why we are gentlemen if life is not gentle with us? -- M.f. Moonzajer
The next time you call me Sir, it better be when you are begging for me to let you come. -- Harper Sloan
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
All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards. -- Katie Price
Courtesy is a lady's armor. -- Sophie Turner
From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest. -- Tony Lema
Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff? -- Marquis De Sade
A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't. -- Mark Twain
I like to be treated as a lady. -- Sharon Stone
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank. -- Charles Caleb Colton
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you. -- Dylan Thomas
No lady is ever a gentleman. -- James Branch Cabell
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"
An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady. -- Margaret Mitchell
A true gentleman has no vices, but he allows you your own. -- Michael Shaara
I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned. -- John Schneider
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. -- Thomas Huxley
A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops -- Italo Calvino
Every student must be a gentleman. -- Robert E.lee
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. -- Henry Fielding
There's no need to call me 'sir', Professor. -- J.k. Rowling
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
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could act out of your noble instincts are over. Except of course, you here in Europe don't yet seem to know it. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
A true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can. -- Mas Oyama
A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go? -- Ron Killings
I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality . -- Silvio Berlusconi
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences. -- William Faulkner
Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman. -- Bill Vaughan
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral. -- Confucius
Beware of a man with manners. -- Eudora Welty
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. -- George Bernard Shaw
