Top 1200 Real Gentleman Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

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

My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.

Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very real chemistry and I have this incredible ensemble of actors led by Will Smith, who are basically playing dimensional characters with lives and souls.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just - he was a worthless shred of human debris.

As the gentleman decays, the lady survives as the strongest evidence of his former predominance.

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us aas real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We're no more real than money.

I can't speak highly enough of Petr Cech. He's set the standards of what it is to be a proper man and a gentleman.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.

You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people.

The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about him. He must do spectacular things. He must not be punctilious about dignity, decorum and other refinements characteristic of the real British gentleman. The Yankee pictured by the Briton must be a bustler. If he is occasionally flagrantly indiscreet in speech and action, then he is so much more surely stamped the genuine article. The most typical American the British ever set their eyes on was, in their judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.

We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.

Shah Rukh is an amazing person. I really adore him. He's such a thorough gentleman.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander The Musical.'

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

I had dreams of becoming an officer and a gentleman. But hey: One out of two ain't bad.

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

Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.