We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished. ~Thomas Hood
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. ~Richard Heber
We must be gentle now we are gentlemen. ~Shakespeare
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. ~Lana Turner
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature. ~Denis Diderot
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
The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world. ~Hazlitt
A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. ~Edgar Allan Poe
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. ~Samuel Johnson
We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times. ~Robert E. Lee
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. ~Xunzi
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. ~John Henry Newman
Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy ~A. J. P. Taylor
You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt ~Clement Attlee
It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot. ~Chapin
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
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
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. ~Luigi Pirandello
A gentleman respects every women in his life. If you can't respect your own mother, forget about respecting your girlfriend. ~James Merrow
A gentleman can live through anything. ~Oscar Wilde
A Gentleman is a prime example of what a man should be. ~Pontius Joseph
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
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
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
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ~Oscar Wilde
A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit. ~Ian Fleming
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally ~Oscar Wilde
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. ~George Bernard Shaw
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. ~George Bernard Shaw
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. ~Robert Smith Surtees
Being a Gentleman, has more to do with hiding his flaws, than exhibiting the virtues! ~Ramana Pemmaraju
The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan
Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. ~Robert Walpole
Gentlemen don't read each other's mail. ~Henry L. Stimson
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. ~Charles Dickens
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station. ~Talfourd
You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman. ~John Wayne
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
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. ~John Henry Newman
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. ~William Lyon Phelps
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. ~Louisa May Alcott
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. ~Tom Waits
A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.~Fred Allen
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. ~Frederick Douglass
Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around. ~Cole Porter
The definition of a gentleman is a man who enters a revolving door in front of you and exits behind you. ~Chloe Thurlow
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
