104 Gentleman Quotes for You to Enjoy

I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together. Judy Garland

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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. W. Somerset Maugham

Gentleman Writer Very Hard

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. Anthony Trollope

Gentleman Though More Much

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw

Made Gentleman Reading Mad He Him Read Don Quixote Quixote Believing

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

Good Stupid Gentleman Pleasure Must Person Lady Who Novel

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman. Jason Mraz

Gentleman More Trying

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass. Joan Collins

You Gentleman Gone Took Hat He Stepped Lightly Days Pass His Hand Lips Acknowledge Aside Across Your

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad. John Travolta

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I would like to think that I'm a gentleman and a nice guy. Logic

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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. Louis Kronenberger

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For me, the best thing you can do as a man in loving someone is to do your best, go on that walk, and at the end of that walk be as much of a gentleman as you were in the beginning. Ryan Adams

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When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel. Amor Towles

Time Me Memory First Gentleman Lobby Later Giant Visit Visited Restaurant Prompted Some Simply Tourist Glass Hotel Over Moscow First Time Years Off Historic Ceiling Curious Short Wandered Grand Painted Set

Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it. Arthur Quiller-Couch

Life Art Me You Will Gentleman Painting Believe Indeed Tell All Your Life Admit Having Write He Prose Spoken Bourgeois Knowing Well Without Very Sir Oh Whereas Anyone Either Your Special English Nay

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful. Brian McKnight

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman. I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York. Casey Affleck

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The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero. Darryl Pinckney

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This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money comes from Washington, from outside the state of Texas, and they've run millions and millions of untrue ads against me. David Dewhurst

Me Money Gentleman State Run Ads Outside Between Most Cruz Untrue Texas Ladies Against Choice Washington Ted Millions Millions And Millions

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman. David Walliams

Gentleman Retired Like Know Traits

When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game's first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game. Doug TenNapel

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