Quotes About Gentleman

Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.

This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

He was not what gentlemen usually thought a gentleman was.

You have my word as a gentleman." [The other man remarks that he is not a gentleman and he retorts] "Then you have my word as a scoundrel, which, I know, opens up a rather confusing paradox that I have neither the time nor inclination to disentangle.

Lucy had no wish to entertain that gentleman. None at all. It was not that Lucy did not wish to marry Mr. Olson, for she had no doubt that marrying him was the most practical thing to do. Nevertheless, she would very much rather avoid the necessity of making conversation with him.

1st April, 1872.—Read Young's 'Search after Livingstone;' thankful for many kind words about me. He writes like a gentleman.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture.

Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother'. It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel."(Analects 2.12)

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I am always a perfect gentleman. If you ever want me to not be a perfect gentlemen, you'll have to ask and not be crying when you do.

The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please every feature works.