Gentlemen Quotes

“Sir,” she said, “you are no gentleman!”
“An apt observation,” he answered airily.“And, you, Miss, are no lady.”

There is a certain swinish comfort in being with a woman who loves you utterly and respects you for being a fine gentleman--even if she is an illiterate whore.

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Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this when a lady is in most desperate need of his help.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton

Sherlock Holmes

Risk

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

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Robert Surtees

Remember, a gentleman should take a bath at least once a year.

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Wilde

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon

Joy

— Whereas before it would have been seen as ungentlemanly to, er, to ask a public figure questions about personal matters or business affairs...
— Oh, well. No need to worry. I'm no gentleman.

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