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Gentleman Quotes


"It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping."


"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."


"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."


"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."


"Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman."


"No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers."


"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."


"A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on."


"It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen."


"It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer."
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