GENTLEMEN

Quote: A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. Author: Fred A. Allen 1894-1957, American Radio Comic

Quote: I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it. Author: Daisy Ashford American Author

Quote: I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist

Quote: The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist

Quote: Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl. Author: Marlene Dietrich 1904-1992, German-born American Film Actor

Quote: A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. Author: Frederick Douglass c.1817-1895, American Abolitionist, Journalist

Quote: Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life. Author: Edward Fox

Quote: Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. Author: Compton Mackenzie 1883-1972, British Writer

Quote: Gentlemen prefer bonds. Author: Andrew William Mellon 1855-1937, American Financier, Philanthropist, Statesman

Quote: A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

Quote: He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles -- that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman. Author: H. Seton Merriman

Quote: It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. Author: Cardinal J. Newman 1801-1890, British Preacher

Quote: For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. Author: Margaret Oliphant 1828-1897, British Novelist, Historian

Quote: The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. Author: William Lyon Phelps

Quote: Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. Author: Luigi Pirandello 1867-1936, Italian Author, Playwright

Quote: Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard. Author: Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

Quote: Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin

Quote: A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: He is every other inch a gentleman. Author: Rebecca West 1892-1983, British Author

Quote: A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit