Welcome to Gentleman Quotes, a curated collection of timeless wisdom and wit encapsulated in the words of esteemed gentlemen from various walks of life. Throughout history, gentlemen have been revered for their eloquence, chivalry, and insight, leaving behind a trail of quotes that continue to inspire and resonate with audiences across generations.
In this compilation, we delve into the profound musings and observations of distinguished figures, ranging from philosophers and statesmen to authors and actors. Whether offering guidance on matters of character, relationships, or the pursuit of excellence, these quotes encapsulate the essence of what it means to embody the qualities of a true gentleman.
Browse through these pearls of wisdom, and discover quotes that speak to your soul, resonate with your experiences, or inspire you to embody the virtues of a gentleman in your own life. Below, you’ll find a treasure trove of quotes waiting to be explored, shared, and perhaps even adorned with stylish fonts or placed on captivating images to further enhance their impact. Let the journey begin, and may these words ignite a spark of inspiration within you.
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. Gerard Manley Hopkins
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady. Keith Miller
Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race. Sojourner Truth
He was a wonderful gentleman, elegant, with great humility. All the wonderful things you can say about a person, you have to say about Fred Astaire. Cyd Charisse
I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else. John Darnielle
My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women. Irina Shayk
A gentleman is any man who wouldn’t hit a woman with his hat on. Fred Allen
Being a gentleman is a worthy goal. Orlando Bloom
We have these rules, the ‘hero rules.’ Like, a hero doesn’t slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero’s always a gentleman. John Singleton
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. Fisher Ames
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs. John Bercow
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. James Fenimore Cooper
John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life. Jennifer O’Neill
At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do ‘Outlander The Musical.’ Diana Gabaldon
The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one. Charles Tupper
I’ve never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act. Hugh Jackman
And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. Anthony Trollope
When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don’t address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game’s first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game. Doug TenNapel
Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots. Richard Dawkins
Golf’s a gentleman’s game. So it’s all about integrity and you cheer on other people, and it’s kind of different from other sports where you just want to beat everyone. Paige Spiranac
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. Herbert Spencer
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. Otis Blackwell
I’m a southern gentleman. Jamie Foxx
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. Jane Pauley
Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you’re crippled, forget about it. No, I’ll never work again. Ricardo Montalban
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I’m very much a gentleman in what I do. Little Richard
A seersucker suit is one of the most iconic styles dating from the 1920s and is still a gentleman’s best bet when it’s hot and sticky. Roger Stone
‘Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. William Congreve
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London. Charles Kingsley
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. King James I
March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‘gentleman gambler’ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters. Hunter S. Thompson
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. Robert Smith Surtees
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. Robert Burns
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
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same. Xun Kuang
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part. Brian McKnight
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. Steve Martin
A gentleman never talks about his tailor. Nick Cave
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you? Orson Welles
I always wanted to play a dapper gentleman, and I also always wanted to play my mum. Taika Waititi
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. George Bernard Shaw
The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country. Hugo Chavez
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman. Kevin Spacey
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. Thorstein Veblen
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended. Enzo Ferrari
Karan Thapar is an endangered species. They don’t make them like him anymore. True, thousands have gone to the Doon Valley School after him, as indeed to Oxford and Cambridge universities. But Karan Thapar is more than the sum of his upbringing. He’s a gentleman journalist. Sanjaya Baru
He is every other inch a gentleman. Rebecca West
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw
Fereydun, that’s my dad’s name. My grandmother, my dad’s mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn’t his child, but he was still very supportive and said, ‘Hey, this is a great name,’ and so it stuck. So that’s what she named him. Fred Armisen
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. Christopher Parker
For me, the best thing you can do as a man in loving someone is to do your best, go on that walk, and at the end of that walk be as much of a gentleman as you were in the beginning. Ryan Adams
A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice. John Paul Jones
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. John Gay
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. Frederick Douglass
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. John Henry Newman
Listen, I’m a gentleman at the end of the day. Jermell Charlo
I’m a gentleman. Rod Stewart
Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined. Joseph Abboud
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen
I’m a gentleman, if nothing else. It’s taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety. Eric Stoltz
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. Carol Burnett
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. Xun Kuang
It’s very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. W. Somerset Maugham
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. Benjamin Disraeli
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. Maria Mitchell
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. Otto von Bismarck
I believe you should be a gentleman, and that’s old-fashioned. John Schneider
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. Lana Turner
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can’t fold a paper in a crowded train. Phyllis McGinley
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. John Henry Newman
I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act – it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I’ve ever met. Lori Petty
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke
All I want is a gentleman. I’m sick to bloody death of bastards. Katie Price
I’m trying to be more of a gentleman. Jason Mraz
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I would love, love, love to do a comedy like ‘Gentleman’s Guide,’ something farcical and fast-paced, but I also want to do something that hasn’t been written yet: the story of Sidney Poitier. A lot of people tell me that I look like him. Joshua Henry
I always had short back and sides because of the movies and shows. I’d always wanted a mullet. My mom never let me have one because she wanted me to be a gentleman, presentable. Jacob Elordi
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two. Charles Oakley
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. William Lyon Phelps
I wasn’t close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time – good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together. Judy Garland
I’ve always aspired to be the quintessential gentleman. Nicholas Galitzine
I keep telling people I’ll make movies until I’m fifty and then I’ll go and do something else. I’m going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. Eddie Murphy
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words. Confucius
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider’d but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg’d in with infrequency and Discrimination. H. P. Lovecraft
Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman. Randy Neugebauer
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It’s listed as part of the poetic training, you know. Ezra Pound
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. Luigi Pirandello
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is! James Payn
I would like to think that I’m a gentleman and a nice guy. Logic
This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did… used to come to my parents’ house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don’t have any memories of this gentleman. Jhumpa Lahiri
The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win. Phil Mickelson
I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field. Troy Polamalu
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. Anthony Trollope
Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn’t try to change you and make you into something you were not. Patricia McBride
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he’d have to be a genius… For he will have to feed a family on a policeman’s salary. Paul Harvey
A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. Christopher Hitchens
There are a few things a true gentleman cannot live without. The black silk knitted square-bottom tie is just such an indispensable item. No true gentlemen would be without one. Roger Stone
My father is somebody I admire and would like to be. He is a mild man and a gentleman. Even though he was from a conservative background, he was so open to my doing theatre. Manoj Bajpayee