Quintilian Quotes

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

I am at heart a gentleman.

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

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

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

Gentlemen don't do that.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

I'm a gentleman.

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.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.