Gentlemen Quotes

“When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again.”
― Shannon Alder

“Don't go looking for boys in the dark
They will say pretty things then
leave you with scars.
Do go looking for boys in the park
For that is where the true gentlemen are.”
― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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

“If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so healing can occur. The opposite is true, as well. If you don’t have feelings for someone then never let another person suggest that you do. Protect your reputation and be responsible for the wrong information spread about you. Never allow anyone to live with a false belief or unfounded hope about you. An honorable person sets the record straight, so that person can move on with their life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy

“JACK

Your duty as a gentleman calls you back.

ALGERNON

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.'

Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and their leather boots, nibbling burnt cakes and praising Diamond's mind, and all the while their eyes said other things. Now, their eyes said. Now. Then: Patience, patience. 'You are flowers,' their mouths said, 'You are jewels, you are golden dreams.' Their eyes said: I eat flowers, I burn with dreams, I have a tower without a door in my heart, and I will keep you there... ”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Harrowing the Dragon

“Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.”
― Ted Tally, Terra Nova

“This is not a topic for gentlemen to discuss," he said with an airy tone.
"I'm neither gentle nor a man," Veil said.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“MENDOZA. I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.

TANNER. [promptly] I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. Shake hands.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Never in England were there so many gentlemen and so little gentleness.”
― C.J. Sansom, Tombland

“Perfection is not given to any man. But an aspiration to perfection—to the highest possible standards in every aspect of life—is possible.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“I am a gentleman and like a good dog, a gentleman comes when a woman beckons him.”
― J.R. Potts, Gathering of the Crimson Cloaks

“DOLMANCE — Fuck! is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”
― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir

“The progress of civilization has made a breakfast or a dinner an easy and cheerful substitute for more troublesome and disagreeable ceremonies. We take a less gloomy view of our errors now our father confessor listens to us over his egg and coffee. We are more distinctly conscious that rude penances are out of the question for gentlemen in an enlightened age, and that mortal sin is not incompatible with an appetite for muffins.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“I do not feel superior to nineteenth-century gentlemen or twelfth-century knights”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“a gentleman today—however we may characterize him—may find his environment less congenial to his temperament.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“Men and women don’t have to be exactly equal, but a gentleman does have to allow a woman to be what she wants to be.”
― Brad Miner, Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

“The one principle which has controlled my conduct while a cadet, and which is apparent throughout my narrative, is briefly this: to find, if possible, for every insult or other offence a reason or motive which is consistent with the character of a gentleman. Whenever I have been insulted, or any thing has been done or said to me which might have that construction, I have endeavored to find some excuse, some reason for it, which was not founded on prejudice or on baseness of character or any other ungentlemanly attribute; or, in other words, I wanted to prove that it was not done because of my color. If I could find such a reason—and I have found them—I have been disposed not only to overlook the offence, but to forgive and forget it.”
― Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy

“Intimacy reveals gentleness in brutes and brutality in gentlemen.”
― Augusto Branco

“The innate beauty of women is found in the gentleness of men. ”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer

“Murder is the one thing the police are guaranteed to look into. And if it ties back to us, to me, then we’re sunk.
So no murder. We conduct business fairly.
We’re gentlemen.”
― Finn Eccleston, The Community: A Funny and Disturbing Conspiracy Mystery Novel

“St. Vincent took in the curious tableau before him . . . the clusters of bewildered onlookers, the affronted ‌innkeeper . . . and the Earl of Westcliff, who stared at him with avid bloodlust.

The entire inn fell silent during that chilling moment, so that Westcliff’s quiet snarl was clearly audible. “By God, I’m going to butcher you.”
― It Happened One Autumn: The Wallflowers by Lisa Kleypas

“The gentleman who sees you for you. Who appreciates your spirit and doesn’t wish to stifle it. The gentleman who will respect your name, but also defend your honor, if need be. The gentleman who doesn’t wish to change you, but who helps you to see the greatness you are capable of. Trust your heart, listen to your mind, and you will find him.”
― Christi Caldwell, To Redeem a Rake

“I know you’ll both call me a romantic,” Gillian said softly, interrupting her thoughts and calling her attention. “But sometimes, gentlemen do horrid things. And make rotten choices that hurt a person. Phoebe,” she reminded them, looking back and forth between her friends. “My sister. But then they’ll have these moments,” she clasped her hands to her chest. “These grand gestures that prove their love and worth.”
― Christi Caldwell, To Enchant a Wicked Duke

“Wimsey felt that he was hardly the sort of man to take kindly to a Paul Alexis for a stepfather; he would not sympathise with the sterile romance of any woman who was past the age of child-bearing. Wimsey, summing him up with the man of the world's experienced eye, placed him at once as a gentleman-farmer, who was not quite a gentleman and not much of a farmer.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase

“The inn near the Trossachs could, perhaps, put up a dozen, or at the very most, two dozen people; but last autumn I saw about one hundred apply for admittance, and after horrid altercations, entreaties, and efforts, about fifty or sixty were compelled to huddle together all night. They were all of the upper rank, travelling mostly in private carriages, and by far the greater number strangers. But the pigs were as comfortably accommodated. I saw thre or four English gentlemen spreading their own straw on the earthen floor of an outhouse, with a sparred door, and no fire-place or furniture. And such things occur every day here, though the ground belongs to a duke, and partly to an earl.”
― Henry Thomas Cockburn, Circuit Journeys