"Gentleman's gentleman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his suit of black and white tie, with his quiet, stealthy movements and unobtrusive attentions, would have been pronounced good style as a gentleman's gentleman in the grandest of Belgravian mansions. Had he suddenly come into a fortune, and gone into society where his antecedents were unknown, five-sixths of his male associates would have pronounced him "a deuced gentlemanly fellow." The remaining one-sixth might have ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various
... came to be used, like our "sir," and even "esquire," of those who had no special qualifications for the title. Like the "gentleman's gentleman" of the servant's hall, he was only a respectable person. So, even in the Code, amelu usually means no more than "man." It already appears as a mere determinative of personality in the titles of laborers and artisans,(64) when it cannot stamp ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... fashionable part of the town, his brocades and laces were no longer of the richest, nor his habit of the very latest and most modish cut; he had no more an equipage attracting every eye as he drove forth, nor a gentleman's gentleman whose swagger and pomp outdid that of all others in his world. Soon after the breaking of his marriage with the heiress, his mother had died, and his relatives being few, and those of an order strictly averse to the habits of ill-provided and extravagant kinsmen, he had but few family ties. Other ...
— A Lady of Quality • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... was naturally disappointed. He abused the critics and the public. Perhaps he grew somewhat soured. He did not hesitate in The Romany Rye to talk candidly about those "ill-favoured dogs . . . the newspaper editors," and he made the gentleman's gentleman of Lavengro describe how he was excluded from the Servants' Club in Park Lane because his master followed a profession "so mean as literature." In fact as a reaction from the unfriendly reception accorded to the Romany Rye—now ...
— Immortal Memories • Clement Shorter
... as his master," said Miss Elizabeth, glancing at Harrison discontentedly; "but he does not look like a married man, somehow. I'll just step up stairs and change my cap: it would be but civil if the gentleman's gentleman sups with us." ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
