J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I'm a gentleman.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

I am at heart a gentleman.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

With long skirts, you can really buff. People open doors for you and everything.

You lose your manners when you are poor.

The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

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.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

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

I was always the Southern gentleman.

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

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

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

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

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

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