Gentlemen

(395 votes)   Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

Marlene Dietrich
1904-1992, German-born American Film Actor

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(365 votes)   Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(361 votes)   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.

Daisy Ashford
American Author

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(349 votes)   I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(348 votes)   Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(347 votes)   A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(330 votes)   The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

William Lyon Phelps

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(324 votes)   The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(316 votes)   A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(305 votes)   A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

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(303 votes)   It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Cardinal J. Newman
1801-1890, British Preacher

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(301 votes)   Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

Compton Mackenzie
1883-1972, British Writer

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(282 votes)   Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.

Edward Fox

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(282 votes)   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
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(277 votes)   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.

H. Seton Merriman

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