Quotes
Quotes about Gentleman
[N]o young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared,* it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
Gentleman: Knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't.
Gentleman: Knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't.
Gentleman: Knows how to play the bagpipes, but doesn't.
This is the final test of the gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.
I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror.
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town, And on it put a steeple.
And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, With emphasis, and also with good sense-- A thing in footing indispensable: He danced without theatrical pretence, Not like a ballet-master in the van Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.
The prince of darkness is a gentleman. Modo he's called, and Mahu.
We are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog--come here, you scamp! Jump for the gentleman--mind your eye! Over the table,--look out for the lamp! The rogue is growing a little old; Five years we've tramped through wind and weather, And slept out-doors when nights were cold, And ate and drank and starved together.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
