"Gentleman's gentleman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... at leaving the service, and going home with his patron was indescribable. He laid out a portion of his gold in a suit of plain clothes, white linen shirts, and in every respect the wardrobe of a man of fashion; in fact, he was now a complete gentleman's gentleman; was very particular in frizzing his woolly hair—wore a white neck-cloth, gloves, and cane. Every one felt inclined to laugh when he made his appearance; but there was something in Mesty's look, which, at all events, prevented their doing so before his ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat
... I am Mr. Bennett's personal gentleman's gentleman. Miss Bennett entrusted me with this note ...
— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... 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 |
