Quotes about Gentlemen

“Gentlemen prefer bonds.”

“He is every other inch a gentleman.”

“Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”

“A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.”

“A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.”

“A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.”

“The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.”

“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”

“Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.”

“I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.”

“It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.”

“Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.”

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

“It is the final test of a gentleman—his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”

“For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.”

“Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.”

“I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.”

“Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.”

“Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.”

“He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles -- that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.”