Gentleman Quotes

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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Rainbow Rowell
“He ever offer to walk you home?"
"I've never asked," Cath said quickly. "I've never asked you either."
"That's true," Levi said.
More quiet. More cold.
The air stung Cath's throat when she finally spoke again. "So maybe you shouldn't."
"Don't be ridiculous," Levi said. "That wasn't my point.”
Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

John Fowles
“I think he was a little like the lizard that changes color with its surroundings. He appeared far more a gentleman in a gentleman's house. In that inn, I saw him for what he was. And I knew his color there was far more natural than the other.”
John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Camilla Isley
“...he's just so out-of-this-world. They don't make them like that anymore.”
Camilla Isley, I Wish for You

William Golding
“Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor," said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public".”
William Golding

“being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.”
Srinivas Shenoy

Richelle E. Goodrich
“You are mistaken; he is not a gentleman but a sir. Just a sir. For a gentleman is grander and a rare acquaintance.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

Natalya Vorobyova
“Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.”
Natalya Vorobyova

Nikki Rowe
“she will change the world someday, her cure of love in a world gone mad; is the gentle kind of touch that will teach women to grow and men to rise.”
Nikki Rowe

Arthur Conan Doyle
“Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this, when a lady is in most desperate need of his help?”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

George Eliot
“Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.”
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Chloe Thurlow
“The definition of a gentleman is a man who enters a revolving door in front of you and exits behind you.”
Chloe Thurlow

“A gentleman is just a patient wolf.”
Lara Turner

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Pontius Joseph
“A Gentleman is a prime example of what a man should be.”
Pontius Joseph

Italo Calvino
“A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops”
Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

Katherine McIntyre
“Despite the gentlemanly kiss, a ferocity burned behind his gaze promising something primal.”
Katherine McIntyre, Stolen Petals

Agatha Christie
“With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.”
Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies

“Being strong is having the wisdom when it is necessary. Being strong is to being gentle when it is most needed. Being strong is using flexibility when it is required. Being strong is about being there when it is a must for you to be there. Being strong is not really about being strong………”
Sameh Elsayed

Page Morgan
“What she felt for him wasn't a sin.
"If you'll remain a gentleman?" she asked.
Nolan swiveled on his heels and twirled her into the shadowy booth. He stepped inside the small space with her, their bodies forced even closer together. "Define gentleman," he said, his breath already hot against her neck.”
Page Morgan, The Lovely and the Lost

Haruki Murakami
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Every Hungarian wishes to die an elegant gentleman”
Igor Janke

Eyden I.
“If she is wrong educate her, don't belittle her.”
Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men

“The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.”
George Everett Macdonald

Ford Madox Ford
“Przepraszam, że byłam dla pana nieuprzejma. Ale to naprawdę irytujące, że stoi się jak wypchany królik, podczas gdy mężczyzna odgrywa Prawdziwego Dżentelmena, chłodnego i zorganizowanego, z całą pozą ziemianina i wszystkim.”
Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not...

Ljupka Cvetanova
“She is young and beautiful. She has no problems with men.”
Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

Bernadette Marie
“-Why do southern men have bug trucks?
-So we look like gentlemen when we help ladies out of them.”
Bernadette Marie, Lost & Found

Agatha Christie
“Com maior percepção do caráter inglês, servi uma forte dose de uísque com soda e coloquei-a na frente do desditado inspetor.”
Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies