Quotes about Gentleman
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
My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
- Oscar Wilde
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
- William Faulkner
Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.
- William Faulkner
God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said.
- William Faulkner
God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Don't you know that?
- William Faulkner
A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
- Anonymous
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
- Oscar Wilde
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
- George Bernard Shaw
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
- Charles Dickens
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
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