Gentleman Quotes

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. (George Bernard Shaw)
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. View quote
Charles Dickens
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. View quote
Lana Turner
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. View quote
Jane Austen
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. View quote
Charles Dickens
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn. View quote
Neil Innes
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy. (Luigi Pirandello)
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. View quote
Tom Waits
A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. View quote
William Congreve
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. View quote
William Lyon Phelps
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. View quote
Fisher Ames
I didnt want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat. View quote
Truman Capote
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. (Frederick Douglass)
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. View quote
Walter Bagehot