Quotes About Gentleman

The Indian was a gentleman named Sequoyah, somewhat older than the young Wilsons and their friends. He nodded soberly to Jamie, and swinging the bundle off his shoulder, laid it on the ground at Jamie's feet, saying something in Cherokee.

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

A gentleman who doesn't have the physical and/or emotional sensitivity to use condoms couldn't possibly possess the self-confidence required to fully procure the infinite sounding of pleasure from the depth of a woman's being, via the endlessness of her cunt.

A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops

He feared her, desired her, thought he'd very well kill any man who dared look twice at her, and here she was, expecting him to walk her home, as though he were a — a goddamned gentleman or something. Didn't she know the only one from whom she needed protection was him?

You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett." "Had politeness beat into me.

I'm pleased that you"re pleased." Lifting her hand, he began to peel off her glove. "I can do that," she said, breathlessly. "I'd rather, if you've no objections.

You're not being a gentleman," she chided. "Did you truly want me to be?

I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

Now, 'tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer. Burlingame declared the difference 'twixt sour pessimist and proper gentleman lies just here: that one will judge good deeds by a morality of the motive and ill by a morality of deed, and so condemn the twain together, whereas your gentleman doth the reverse, and hath always grounds to pardon his wayward fellows.

From the outset, he had assumed that his word as a gentleman would be accepted and that the whole affair would be settled quietly, the way Savannah had settled past incidents involving prominent suspects

If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go, keep you in my arms girl, you'd never be alone, and I could be a gentlemen anything you want, if I was your boyfriend.

Being a male is the matter of birth, being a man is the matter of age, But being a gentleman is the matter of choice.

A real man will always carry your bags, open your door, show you respect and remind you of how beautiful you are.

Be the boy you want your daughter to date. Be the man you want your son to be. Be the guy your partner wished for; a Gentleman.

A guy is a boy by birth, a man by age, but a gentleman by choice.

Being male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age but being a gentlemen is a matter of choice.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

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

Hasn't anyone ever told you that the Devil, however he appears, is never a perfect gentleman?

I like old movies on television where a man lights a woman's cigarette. That's all they seemed to do in those old movies, the men and women. I'm normally so totally disregardless. But every time I see an old movie on television, I keep a sharp eye out for a man lighting a woman's cigarette.

He smiled. "Would it help if I told you I'm a gentleman?" "No." She replied and lifted her chin slightly. "How about my…lineage?" "I'm American. We don't do lineage.

A horseman of the old school, a gentleman who never forgot to dip down and stake you when he win. He was more ashamed to be stingy than to be broke, so as long as he had two dollars you had one . . .