A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.
I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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.
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider’d but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg’d in with infrequency and Discrimination.
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
I just did a part in ‘Sin City 2.’ I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me… I’m so excited about that; I think it’s gonna be very cool.
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
For a brief period, I had a gentleman’s farm in Pennsylvania, but even then, I kept a place in New York.
Listen, I’m a gentleman at the end of the day.
I have met Sunil Dutt-ji two or three times and though I don’t have a special memory of these meetings, I know that he was a gentleman and a fantastic human being.
My father… gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
We have these rules, the ‘hero rules.’ Like, a hero doesn’t slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero’s always a gentleman.
I’m trying to be more of a gentleman.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act – it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I’ve ever met.
I’m a gentleman.
The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
Shah Rukh Khan is such a gentleman that he doesn’t intimidate anyone. He is nothing but sweet to everyone, and he has been absolutely amazing to me.
Rick was a real gentleman. He was very kind and had an amazing sense of humour – he was the funny one in the group, and a very talented musician.
I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman’s sport.
I can’t speak highly enough of Petr Cech. He’s set the standards of what it is to be a proper man and a gentleman.
You have to be a low-class scumbag to start calling a woman a name. If you’re a man, you should never. You should be a gentleman.
When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn’t easy.
Vishal is a gentleman. I really enjoyed working with him on the sets. But he keeps pulling everybody’s leg!
Hatton don’t look much like a guy who thinks about commas. But he is a gentleman. His family are gentlemanly. Real classy people.
All I want is a gentleman. I’m sick to bloody death of bastards.
Shah Rukh is an amazing person. I really adore him. He’s such a thorough gentleman.
Every fighter has a duty to boxing to not bring themselves or the sport into disrepute by foul language or behaviour so that boxing can be seen as a gentleman’s sport.
Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
I keep telling people I’ll make movies until I’m fifty and then I’ll go and do something else. I’m going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
I’m a gentleman, if nothing else. It’s taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
‘Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he’d have to be a genius… For he will have to feed a family on a policeman’s salary.
I don’t know what I’ll be like when I’m 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
The more you act like a lady, the more he’ll act like a gentleman.
A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
Golf is a game with morals. There’s always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That’s why it’s a gentleman’s game.
Picking up ‘A Gentleman’ was pretty easy. It had everything that I like watching in a film. And it has everything that audiences like to see me doing.
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.
Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
A lot of sports cars are just not designed for the larger gentleman.
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime – what a lovely gentleman.
One time, a hedge fund gentleman in Connecticut brought in a bunch of professional wrestlers and myself at a very hefty price for his son’s 11th birthday.
Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.
I knew a gentleman who was 65 who had a consulting firm outside of Kansas City, Mo. I convinced him to sell me the business, which did auditing and reviewing of freight bill charges, for nothing down. It was a step out of working in this bureaucratic setting of corporate America and going out on my own in 1984.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Usually, I don’t revisit a scene once shot. However, in ‘Gentleman,’ every morning on the sets, I had to revisit the last four scenes and then shoot for the next set of scenes.
My parents were terrific – mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him – a gentleman.
As a woman, first of all, let me say this: I know Donald Trump for 30 years. We socialized with him. I have been involved in a million situations with him and his children. He has always been a gentleman.
Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
There are a few things a true gentleman cannot live without. The black silk knitted square-bottom tie is just such an indispensable item. No true gentlemen would be without one.
I would love, love, love to do a comedy like ‘Gentleman’s Guide,’ something farcical and fast-paced, but I also want to do something that hasn’t been written yet: the story of Sidney Poitier. A lot of people tell me that I look like him.
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!
