Gentleman Sayings and Quotes


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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.     
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.
Srinivas Shenoy
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He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.     
Thomas Hood
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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
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We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.     
Shakespeare
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Lana Turner
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He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
Denis Diderot
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A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.
Confucius
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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
Hazlitt
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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.     
Edgar Allan Poe
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.     
Samuel Johnson
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We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.
Robert E. Lee
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.     
Xunzi
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.     
John Henry Newman
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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
A. J. P. Taylor
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You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt
Clement Attlee
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It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.     
Chapin
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A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.     
Shannon L. Alder
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Raymond Chandler
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Luigi Pirandello
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A gentleman respects every women in his life. If you can't respect your own mother, forget about respecting your girlfriend.     
James Merrow
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A gentleman can live through anything.
Oscar Wilde
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A Gentleman is a prime example of what a man should be.     
Pontius Joseph
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A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
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A gentleman is one who doesn't and cant forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.     
Anuj Somany
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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
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.     
Oscar Wilde
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A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.     
Ian Fleming
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally     
Oscar Wilde
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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.     
George Bernard Shaw
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.     
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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Being a Gentleman, has more to do with hiding his flaws, than exhibiting the virtues!
Ramana Pemmaraju
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The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.
Puzant Kevork Thomajan
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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.     
Robert Walpole
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Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.
Henry L. Stimson
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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
Charles Dickens
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.
Talfourd
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.     
John Wayne
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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.     
William Hazlitt
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.     
John Henry Newman
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.     
William Lyon Phelps
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A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
Louisa May Alcott
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A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
Tom Waits
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.     
Fred Allen
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.     
Frederick Douglass
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Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
Cole Porter
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The definition of a gentleman is a man who enters a revolving door in front of you and exits behind you.     
Chloe Thurlow
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A man who needs women to prove his worth is a man who'll never be worthy. A Gentleman finds his worth in himself and his pride in a women.
Moyo Adekoya

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