Quotes About Gentleman

Where is your boy tonight, I hope he is a gentleman. Maybe he won't find out what I know, you were the last good thing about this part of town.

Politeness is the hallmark of the gentleman and the gentlewoman. No single, positive characteristic

My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.

A gentleman is contemplative in that he never ceases to refine his sense of reality.

The compleat gentleman has always been akin to the warrior, but it does not follow that he has always been a soldier. When duty calls, he will be a fighter, but his martial skill may be practiced with his wits rather than his fists.

Men and women don't have to be exactly equal, but a gentleman does have to allow a woman to be what she wants to be.

chivalry demands that a man respect a woman's wishes. Needless to say, this does not mean that a compleat gentleman is his lady's lackey.

a gentleman today—however we may characterize him—may find his environment less congenial to his temperament.

A gentleman takes a woman on her own terms, and in doing so he puts the lie to ideological drivel about oppression.

I propose three models—archetypes if you like—that comprise the dimensions of a chivalrous gentleman's character: the warrior, the lover, and the monk.

The compleat gentleman's rectitude does not prohibit him from having a sense of humor. His Stoic sense of life and his urbane education ought to give him wit.

The one human being she had ever fully and wholeheartedly trusted had failed her; the only man she had ever known to whom she could point and say with expert knowledge, "He is a gentleman, in his heart he is a gentleman," had betrayed her, publicly, grossly, and shamelessly.

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!

Rod's always opening doors for me, but I usually tell him to walk through first. Otherwise, if we're at a restaurant and I'm in front, the paparazzi end up getting a big giant close-up of me, and then he's trailing behind, looking like my little child!

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

I'm not a gentleman, I'm a nobleman, a distinction I suspect you understand very well.

Beau Brummel

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

If you want to know if a gentleman loves you," her mother said, "there is only one true way to be sure." "It's in his kiss," her mother whispered. "It's all there, in his kiss.

After all, is a gentleman's library of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves anything more than a vanity?

There have always been two senses of the word gentleman: the fine man of high birth and the fine man of good character.

I do not believe our gentleman Boy Scout should obsess about combat. I do think he ought to be concerned about combat readiness. A man, however hard he works for peace, must always be ready for war.