Gentleman Quotes - Page 7

• A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

  George Bernard Shaw

  World, Personal Growth, Real Gentleman

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• Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.

  Judd Nelson

  Smart, Ice, Pleasure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Margaret Oliphant

  Giving, Mind, Littles

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2480, Delphi Classics

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Believe In Me, Dilemma

  John Henry Ingram, Edgar Allan Poe (1886). “Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions”

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• 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.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Race, Done, World

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

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• Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Leisure, Valuable

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 4 (1899) See Rae 1

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• No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

  Richard Heber

  Book, Three, Use

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• The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Men, Talking, He Man

  'Ask Mamma' (1858) ch. 1

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• His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

  Robert Burns

  Apparel, Brass, Scholar

  Robert Burns (1863). “The Poetical Works”, p.228

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• To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

  Murray Kempton

  Cameras, Oneself, And Off

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, Noblemen, Perfect Gentleman

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Doctor Wortle's School”, p.183, Booklassic

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Motivational, Men, Literature

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• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Indulge In, Vices, Profanity

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• Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Personality, Energy

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• Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 47 (on the death of Jo)

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• The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

  William Shakespeare

  Darkness, Ironic

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [148]

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• To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

  Pierre Daninos

  Men, Soul, Domes

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• Gentlemen, start your egos!

  Billy Crystal

  Ego, Comedy

  "Sunday Night" with Rahni Sadler, au.news.yahoo.com. April 25, 2016.

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• No lady is ever a gentleman.

  James Branch Cabell

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• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Tyrants, Literature

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

  Fisher Ames

  Taken, Fog, Eggs

  "Memoirs of Theophilus Parsons". Book by Theophilus Parsons, 1859.

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• All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

  Katie Price

  Sick, Want, Bloody

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

  Compton Mackenzie

  Women, Maturity, Difficult

  Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22

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• A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Thinking, Circles

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• A gentleman never offends unintentionally

  Oscar Wilde

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