#gentleman

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. ↗

— John Singleton

#gentleman #head #hero #his #like

I'm a gentleman. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#i

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#away #eggs #gentleman #hen #her

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#attitude #business #gentleman #him #his

Great men speak secrets about themselves with nods and gestures, walking away from jokes about women rather than condemn the jokester; if with a woman, the turning of their head during a nude scene in a movie speaking volumes about their character without ever saying a word. It is a language foreign to women, but those that take the time to learn it find themselves knowing more about their man than by any other means. ↗

— Lee Goff

#great-men #honor #inspirational #inspirational

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words. ↗

— Kong Fu Zi

#deeds #gentleman #his #match #should

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#else #english #gentleman #great #great service

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

— Richard Heber

#borrowers #copies #gentleman #show #three

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life. ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#consummate #gentleman #john #john wayne #life

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. ↗

— James Otis

#calls #conduct #country #ease #estate