This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.
Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brothers.
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.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashing when clad in this swashbuckling style.
The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
Hatton don't look much like a guy who thinks about commas. But he is a gentleman. His family are gentlemanly. Real classy people.
For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
