Gentleman Quotes - page 2

A gentleman can live through anything. (William Faulkner)
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. View quote
John Henry Newman
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. View quote
James Otis
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. View quote
Robert Smith Surtees
His lockèd, lettered, braw brass collar Showed him the gentleman an' scholar. View quote
Robert Burns
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. View quote
John Locke
I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman. View quote
David Walliams
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it. View quote
Otis Blackwell
Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting. View quote
Stephen Collins
The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing. (Daniel Webster)
I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality. View quote
Silvio Berlusconi
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. View quote
William Hazlitt
I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. View quote
Solon
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills. View quote
Cicero
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
The right hon. Gentleman is the first of the new party who has expressed his great grief by his actions-who has retired into what may be called his political Cave of Adullam-and he has called about him every one that was in distress and every one that was discontented. View quote
John Bright
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task." View quote
Samuel Johnson
Johnson observed that he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney. (Samuel Johnson)
I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. View quote
Anne Rice
Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts. View quote
Thomas Gainsborough
A gentleman is never in a hurry. View quote
André Maurois
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. View quote
George Washington