Gentleman Quotes

He is every other inch a gentleman.

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

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.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

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.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

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.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.