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Quotes About Gentleman

As usual, he was richly, if somewhat negligently dressed. Miss Challoner, incurably neat, wondered that a carelessly tied cravat and unpowdered hair could so well become a man. Not a doubt but that the Marquis had an air.
~ Georgette Heyer
Lord Charlbury might be constitutionally incapable of addressing her as Nymph, or of comparing bluebells unfavourably with her eyes, but Lord Charlbury would infallibly provide a cloak for her if the weather were inclement, lift her over obstacles she could well climb without assistance, and in every way convince her that in his eyes she was a precious being whom it was impossible to guard too carefully.
~ Georgette Heyer
He was a very elegant young gentleman, of engaging address, and fashionable appearance. His glossy brown locks were brushed into the Windswept style; the points of his collar reached his cheek- bones; his neckcloth was fearfully and wonderfully tied;
~ Georgette Heyer
I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act - it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I've ever met.
~ Lori Petty
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.
~ Paul Harvey
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
~ Luigi Pirandello
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
~ Xun Kuang
Mendoza said to Tanner, "I am a brigand; I live by robbing the rich." Tanner replied, "I am a gentleman; I live by robbing the poor. Shake hands." The
~ Saul D. Alinsky
Well, if only I wasn't too much the gentleman to flay your spirit with a witty and cutting retort, madam, you'd be … thoroughly … um, wittily retorted at this very instant. - Locke Lamora
~ Scott Lynch
Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.
~ David Copperfield
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
~ Mark Twain
It was with much satisfaction that I recognized the wisdom of having told this candid gentleman, in the beginning, that my name was Smith.
~ Mark Twain
If ze zhentlemans will to me make ze grande honneur to me rattain in hees serveece, I shall show to him every sing zat is magnifique to look upon in ze beautiful Parree. I speaky ze Angleesh pairfaitemaw.
~ Mark Twain
Henry, I'm ashamed of you. You don't half thank the good gentleman. May I do it for you?' -Indeed you shall, dear, if you can improve it. Let us see you try. She walked to my man, got up in his lap, put her arm round his neck, and kissed him right on the mouth. Then the two old gentlemen shouted with laughter, but I was dumfounded, just petrified, as you may say.
~ Mark Twain
A good part of the whispering had been occasioned by an event which was more or less rare—the entrance of visitors: lawyer Thatcher, accompanied by a very feeble and aged man; a fine, portly, middle-aged gentleman with iron-gray hair; and a dignified lady who was doubtless the latter's wife.
~ Mark Twain
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
~ Mark Twain
his shirt and hauled the fine linen up, and off.
~ Stephanie Laurens
I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out
~ Stephen Fry
For Faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into unity. After these comes whatever else makes up a Christian gentleman.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
He has an innate sense of courtesy, the kind of man who will instictively open a door for a woman, not because he's making some kind of chivalrous gesture but because it wouldn't occur to him not to open the door if someone needed to go through it.
~ Jojo Moyes
There is something in the scene reminiscent of Pip's return to old Joe at the forge in Dickens's Great Expectations. So much is felt but unspoken in that moment when Joe beholds the little boy he once knew and then, in his humble rural accent, says, "You're a gentleman now, Pip.
~ Eric Metaxas
Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.
~ Beatrix Potter
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone, extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic, whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling, never a gentleman.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
~ Ferdinand Marcos