Gentleman quotes
Allen Fred 1894-1956
(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Anonymous
Articles of War
Any Officer who shall behave in a scandalous manner, unbecoming the character of an officer and a getleman shall....be cashiered.
Anonymous
Gentleman: one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Atkinson E.L. and Garrard Apsley Cherry
(inscription on the burial-place of Captain Oates)
A very gallant gentleman.....he walked willingly to his death in a blizzard to try to save his comrades beset by hardships.
Bagehot Walter 1826-1877
Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry forthe death of a political economist.
Baldwin Stanley 1867-1947
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
Ball John d. 1381
Sermon
When Adam delved, and Eve span,
Who was then a gentleman?
Banzini Luigi
A genbtleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.
Burke Edmund 1729-1797
Letter to William Smith
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
Halsey Margaret
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the Enhlish gentleman, the Englishlady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
Leverson Ada 1865-1936
Letters to the Sphinx (of Oscar Wilde)
He seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman in Europe.
Livy (Titus Livius) 59 BC-AD17
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
MacDonald Sir John A. 1815-1891
A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentleman.
Newman John Henry, Cardinal 1801-1890
The Idea of a University
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Phelps William Lyon
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
(of Sir Anthony Eden)
Not a gentleman; dresses too well.
Sheridan Richard Brinsley 1751-1816
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Surtees R.S. 1805-1864
Ask Mamma
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
Surtees R.S. 1805-1864
Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
West Rebecca 1892-1983
(of Michael Arlen)
Every other inch a gentleman.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
A Woman of No Importance
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Gladstone W.E. 1809-1898
(of the Irish Land League)
It is perfectly true that these gentlemen wish to march through rapine to disintegration and dismemberment of the Empire, and, I am sorry to say, even to the placing of different parts of the Empire in direct hostility one with the other.
Goldwyn Sam 1882-1974
(on resigning from Motion Picture Producers)
Gentlemen, include me out.
Gowers Sir Ernest 1880-1966
We are all esquires now, and we are none of us gentlemen any more.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Puck of Pook's Hill „A Smuggler's Song"
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark-
Brandy for the parson,
´Baccy for the Clerk;
Laces for a lady, letters for a spy,
Watch the wall, my darling, while the
Gentlemen go by!
Mackenzie Sir Compton 1883-1972
Literature in My Time
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
History of England
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
Mellon Andrew 1855-1937
Gentlemen prefer bonds.
Mugabe Robert 1924-
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
Parker Martin 1600-1656
„The Valiant Sailors"
You gentlemen of England
Who live at home at ease,
How little do you think
On the dangers of the seas.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Henry V
And gentlemen in England, now a-bed
Shall think themsleves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Talleyrand Charles Maurice de 1754-1838
Above all, gentlemen, not the slightest zeal.
Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863
Pendennis
The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
The Prelude
We were brothers all
In honour, as in one community,
Scholars and gentlemen.
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