“The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.”
- Robert S. Surtees
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“A gentleman is a man who can disagree
without being disagreeable.”
- Anonymous |
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's
feelings unintentionally.”
- Oscar Wilde
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“Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something
you have to be all the time.”
- Anonymous |
“A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.”
- Oscar Wilde
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“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world
than he takes out.”
- George Bernard Shaw
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“Come on, gentleman; let us drink to
our stupidity.”
- Santosh Kalwar |
“A fashionable gentleman who much
concerns himself with the fashions of gentlemen is neither fashionable nor a
gentleman.”
-Stewart Alsop
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“A legal gentleman who rescues
your estate from your enemies, and keeps it himself.”
- Vaux
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“The final test of a
gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”
- Anonymous |
“A gentlemen is one who never
strikes a woman without provocation.”
- H. L. Mencken
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“The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.”
- Charles Dickens
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“It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who
never inflicts pain.”
- Cardinal J. Newman
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“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a
gentleman can insult me.”
- Frederick Douglass
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“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good
company and reflection must finish him.”
- John Locke
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“A gentleman is someone who does not
what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
- Haruki Murakami |
“Do me a favor? Be a gentleman
tomorrow?”
- Cora Carmack |
“With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a
half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.”
- Otto von Bismarck
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“The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a
gentleman is to a gent.”
- Stanley Baldwin
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“Gentleman. A man who buys two of the
same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves
with his girl.”
- Marlene Dietrich
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“Gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult
me.”
- Anonymous |
“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say
that he is one who never inflicts pain.”
- John Henry Newman
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“I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.”
- Little Richard
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“I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.”
- Jason Mraz
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“Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in
energy.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be
on my best behavior.”
- Joe Wilson
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“I can make a lord, but only God can make a
gentleman.”
- King James
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“The true gentleman is subtly poised between
an inner tact and an outer defense.”
- Puzant Kevork
Thomajan
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“We sometimes meet an original
gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“A true man of honor feels
humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.”
- Robert E. Lee
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“He is the best gentleman who
is the son of his own deserts.”
- Victor Hugo
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“He that bears himself like a gentleman, is Worth to have been born a gentleman.”
- Chapman
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“Gentleman is a term which does
not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.”
- Talfourd
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“ A gentleman is one who
understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in
others, and exacts it in return from them.”
- Hazlitt
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“A gentleman has ease without
familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation,
insinuating without seeming art.”
- Chesterfield
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“I think that Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium, is a perfect
gentleman. If he be not, then I am unable to describe a gentleman.”
- Anonymous |
“Once a gentleman, and always a
gentleman.”
- Charles
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“Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make
a gentleman.”
- Edmund Burke
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“Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability
to the gentleman of leisure.”
- Thorstein Veblen
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“I am a brigand: I live by robbing the
rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.”
- George Bernard
Shaw
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