Quotes About Gentleman

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

O outono é a única estação civilizada. A primavera é um descontrole glandular da Natureza. O inverno é o preço que a gente paga para ter o outono, e por isso está perdoado. O verão é uma indignidade. [...] Clássicos ao pé do fogo, um vago cachorro e sherry seco contra o catarro. Um gentleman não deve suar, meu caro.

Sir Howard Kennard, the British ambassador, was heard to lament that Hitler's rise had taken all the satisfaction out of diplomacy. "Being an ambassador used to be a gentleman's job," he said. "Now it's a question of fighting with gangsters. . . . You might as well try to make a deal with Al Capone.

How can a man know he is one when his highest aim is minding his manners?

Alas, poor gentleman, He look'd not like the ruins of his youth But like the ruins of those ruins.

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

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

A boy makes YOU jealous of another woman, but a gentleman makes another woman jealous of YOU.

Nice guys finish last because they make sure they put their woman first which would be fine if women didn't always take advantage of it and mistake being a gentleman for weakness.

Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors and 'bounders' that a man of fashion is afraid of finding his social value underrated. Three-fourths of the mental ingenuity displayed, of the social falsehoods scattered broadcast ever since the world began by people whose importance they have served only to diminish, have been aimed at inferiors.

We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.

For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.

Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost--good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies any more, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word. There was a time when people kept their fly buttons fastened. And man's freedom was boiling off. Where did all the good stones go, and all simplicity?

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

My father always used to say 'treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.'

I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.

My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

A gentleman is one who doesn't and cant forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

A man who needs women to prove his worth is a man who'll never be worthy. A Gentleman finds his worth in himself and his pride in a women.

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

Don't be a fool!" snapped the viscount. "When did sheltering from the rain with a gentleman count as compromising a lady's honour?" "Yes, indeed," said the squire in amazement. "In faith, sir, you should be thanking Fitzpatrick here for having minded your daughter instead of trying to force him to marry the girl.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.