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Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous.
Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.
polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity,
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman ...
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.
He is every other inch a gentleman.
Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized.
When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
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.
Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
Acted like a king to be treated like one.
Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
Not very ladylike.
Being a gentleman is highly overrated.
POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.
A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
Always so very courteous. Lose courtesy, and you lose control; lose control and you lose yourself.
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.
He is a gentleman!
[He's a player.]
A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.
A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are.
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
What is a gentleman, anyway?
He's a man who prefers the first edition of a book to the last edition of a newspaper.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy."
~Lord Bourne
He's a closet gentleman,
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
Gentlemanly behavior isn't just opening doors: to make an impression, you have to be concerned over a lady's needs at least as much as your own.
There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Passionately desired, graciously received.
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.
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it
A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.
There is a nobility in the world of manners.
The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.
Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way.
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
God is a gentleman.
A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.
Aggressive, or fine but the timing was just not right.
Honourable is right.
Even when I have bad manners... I'm still polite!
I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.
A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.
A man will be as much of a gentleman as a woman requires.
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.
Courtesy is the universal social lubricant.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes.
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Beware of a man with manners.
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
The greater man the greater courtesy.
Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There
I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.
The definition of a gentleman is a man who enters a revolving door in front of you and exits behind you.
The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.
Gentle to others, to himself severe.
My dog's a gentleman.
Be nice, but not too fucking nice.
A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
Chivalry should be consensual.
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.
Courtesy is Love in little things.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Fair and softly goes far.
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
Why we are gentlemen if life is not gentle with us?
Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?