Quotes about Gentleman
For Faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into unity. After these comes whatever else makes up a Christian gentleman.
— Ignatius of Antioch
Gentleman, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man.
— Mark Driscoll
I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.
— Dennis Prager
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
— GK Chesterton
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
— Oscar Wilde
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
— Oscar Wilde
I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him.
— Charles Dickens
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
— Oscar Wilde
God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Don't you know that?
— William Faulkner
Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.
— William Hazlitt
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
— Charles Dickens
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman
— John Henry Newman