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Quotes About Gentleman

He is a gentleman and i am a gentleman's daughter. so far we are equal.
~ Jane Austen
In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.
~ Jane Austen
and they soon drew from those inquiries the full conviction that one of them at least knew what it was to love. Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough.
~ Jane Austen
However, Mr. Darcy was the man I truly admired. I see him clearly. He is exceptionally tall, and his head is covered with black curly hair. He looks serious except when he smiles at you; it knocks you right straight across the room. His smile is that brilliant. He doesn't ever do anything to hurt girls. I longed for him to walk out of his book and reach for my hand.
~ Jane Hamilton
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
~ Eddie Murphy
The gentleman sitting on my left was young, very tall and blond, and had the posture of a sphinx reimagined by Albert Speer.
~ Tim Rogers
photography was "a circus kind of business, and unfit for a gentleman to engage in.
~ Timothy Egan
I had dreams of becoming an officer and a gentleman. But hey: One out of two ain't bad.
~ Rhys Darby
I am the king of old school romance.
~ Naseeruddin Shah
My idea of romance is pretty old school.
~ Shruti Haasan
I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.
~ John Schneider
I'm really an old-fashioned girl - I like to be romanced.
~ Aretha Franklin
Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.
~ Genesis Rodriguez
JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
~ Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
~ Oscar Wilde
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
~ Oscar Wilde
The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.
~ Oscar Wilde
If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
~ Oscar Wilde
One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.
~ Oscar Wilde
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.
~ Oscar Wilde
My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
~ Oscar Wilde
Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a gentleman lies deep in the heart of thousands that are born without chance to master the outward graces of the type.
~ Owen Wister
Right ho, Jeeves.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Jeeves, of course, is a gentleman's gentlemen, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.
~ P.G. Wodehouse