Quotes About Gentleman

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

When I was young, men like my father would often come home and put on their smoking jacket over their perfectly ordinary trousers, as a way of relaxing in the evening.

I should be honored if you would dance with me, Lady Derring," Mr. Farraday said, because he possessed excellent manners and because Delilah was smiling sweetly at him and he was as putty in her hands. But then, in the hands of the right woman, Mr. Farraday was the sort who would be putty for the rest of his days.

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

She had taken an almost instant dislike to him over a dinner at Nopi which, when the bill arrived, he had been more than happy to go Dutch on, thereby failing one of her first requirements of a suitor, which was to behave like a gentleman. She wanted doors opening, meals paid for, flowers. Billets-doux (lovely words, made her think of doves – bill and coo). She wanted to be courted. Gallantry. What a lovely word.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

No gentleman ever has any money.

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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.

Man makes his own destiny. Despite being a woman, she makes Man, a Gentleman.

An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.