Karan Thapar is an endangered species. They don't make them like him anymore. True, thousands have gone to the Doon Valley School after him, as indeed to Oxford and Cambridge universities. But Karan Thapar is more than the sum of his upbringing. He's a gentleman journalist.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brothers.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I'll always remember Vinod Khanna as a thorough gentleman, cultured, polite, who knew how to conduct himself with the ladies.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

A lot of sports cars are just not designed for the larger gentleman.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

This is a choice, ladies and gentleman, between Texas and Washington. Most of Ted Cruz's money comes from Washington, from outside the state of Texas, and they've run millions and millions of untrue ads against me.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.