Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old gentleman quotes, gentleman sayings, and gentleman proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
List Of Inspirational Gentleman Quotes
“Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.”
Samuel Johnson
“We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.”
Thomas Hood
“No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for the show, one for use, and one for borrowers.”
Richard Heber
“We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.”
Shakespeare
“A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.”
Lana Turner
“He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.”
Denis Diderot
“A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.”
Confucius
“The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.”
Hazlitt
“A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Best Humorous Gentleman Quotes
“We have only one rule here – to act like a gentleman at all times.”
Robert E. Lee
“If the gentleman has an ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.”
Xunzi
“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.”
John Henry Newman
“Perfect soldier, the perfect gentleman never gave offense to anyone, not even the enemy.”
A. J. P. Taylor
“You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt.”
Clement Attlee
“It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.”
Chapin
“A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman’s heart.”
Shannon L. Alder
“The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.”
Raymond Chandler
Famous Inspirational Gentleman Quotes
“Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.”
Luigi Pirandello
“A gentleman respects every woman in his life. If you can’t respect your own mother, forget about respecting your girlfriend.”
James Merrow
“A gentleman can live through anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“A Gentleman is a prime example of what a man should be.”
Pontius Joseph
“A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.”
Lawrence G. Lovasik
“A gentleman is one who doesn’t and can’t forgive himself for the self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.”
Anuj Somany
“Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”
Oscar Wilde
“A gentleman’s choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.”
Ian Fleming
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”
Oscar Wilde
“Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.”
George Bernard Shaw
