#gentleman

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#gentleman #gentlemen #inspirational #manners #motivational

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. ↗

— Fred Allen

#gentleman #hat #his #hit #man

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

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

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#best #creature #daughter #gentleman #goodness

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room. ↗

— George Axelrod

#bill #chic #dollar #fifty #gentleman

This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#battles #easy #gentleman #georgia #global

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#fever #found #gentleman #had #house

No lady is ever a gentleman. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#gentleman #lady

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#feelings #gentleman #hurts #never #who