Gentleman
A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.
One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man.
One who bears arms, but has no title.
The servant of a man of rank.
A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.
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Gentleman Quotations
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin
A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Fred Allen
Gentleman Translations
gentleman in Dutch is heer, gentleman
gentleman in German is Ehrenmann, Herr
gentleman in Portuguese is cavalheiro
gentleman in Swedish is herre
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