Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate ease health and applause and even life to the sacred calls of his country.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game especially these days.

The person be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases what a waste of good food it is!

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Education begins the gentleman but reading good company and reflection must finish him.

No real English gentleman in his secret soul was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent a selfish act.