Quotes About Gentleman

Ladies and gentleman! You've read about it in the newspapers! Now, shudder as you observe, before your very eyes, that most rare and tragic of nature's mistakes! I give you...the average man!!

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

A boy stepping into the street and opening an umbrella for a girl keeping dry in the doorway.

Derane, zapamti jednom: nikad, nikad, nikad ?ovek ne postaje smešan pred ženom ako radi nje ?ini nešto. ?ak i pri naglupljoj lakrdiji. Radi šta ho?eš; govori gluposti, hvališi se kao paun, pevaj pod njenim prozorom, samo ne ?ini jedno: ne budi poslovan, ne budi trezven! - Šta ti veliš na to, Oto? Kester se smejao. - Bi?e da je ta?no.

She asked, what would he do if a lady happened to insist? Turner replied, "Madam, do you think that would be a lady?

Late that afternoon, he devoted two quiet hours to his Old South, losing himself in another, more chivalrous age.

After all, there is nothing that gives a girl more of a thrill than brains in a gentleman.

When a gentleman who is as important as Mr. Eisman, spends quite a lot of money educating a girl, it really does not show reverance to call a gentleman by his first name. I mean I never even think of calling Mr. Eisman by his first name, but if I want to call him anything at all, I call him "Daddy

This was no crossword to be solved by a gentleman in an armchair. Murder was mad and unreasonable and gentlemen had no part in it.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

This gentleman is heading for Mineral County in West Virginia. Near a place called Keyser, not too far from the Maryland line." Which all meant nothing to Reacher, except that West Virginia sounded one step better than regular Virginia.

As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unacquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood – a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

See that you mind your manners, that's all. No gentleman will buy the cow when he knows he can get the milk for nothing." Lily managed not to roll her eyes until she'd turned her back on Mrs. McAllister and stepped into the hall again. Caleb had come right out and admitted that he had no intention of "buying the cow"—he only wanted to rent it. Lily

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

A man could be a hereditary ruler, or an elected president, but not be a gentleman, and that would show in his every deed. But if you had a leader who was a gentleman, with all that this meant, then you were lucky indeed.

I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.

Conservative activists who are surprised or indignant at the gross lopsidedness of the whole system are being foolish because they are expecting the devil to be a gentleman. They are expecting him to fight clean, and to avoid every form of fighting dirty. What makes us think he might do that?

Oscar Wilde once defined a gentleman as one who never insulted somebody else accidentally.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and that when he is exterminated—as exterminated he will be unless public opinion rallies to his support—India will be the poorer, having lost the finest of her fauna.