Gentleman Quotes

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  The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Men, Animal

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Exercise, Brave

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2005). “The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists”, p.8, University of Michigan Press

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• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  Lana Turner

  Sex, Men, Patient

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• A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

  Confucius

  Deeds And Words, Would Be, Should

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Education, Reading

  "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

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• The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

  Phil Mickelson

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom

  'Little Dorrit' (1857) bk. 2, ch. 28 (Rigaud)

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  World, Personal Growth, Real Gentleman

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• I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

  King James I

  Lord, I Can

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• Gentlemen, start your egos!

  Billy Crystal

  Ego, Comedy

  "Sunday Night" with Rahni Sadler, au.news.yahoo.com. April 25, 2016.

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• The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

  William Shakespeare

  Darkness, Ironic

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [148]

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• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Indulge In, Vices, Profanity

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• Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Personality, Energy

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• A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

  Frederick Douglass

  Motivational, Men, Literature

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• All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

  Katie Price

  Sick, Want, Bloody

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• Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

  Compton Mackenzie

  Women, Maturity, Difficult

  Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22

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• And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, Noblemen, Perfect Gentleman

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Doctor Wortle's School”, p.183, Booklassic

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• If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Tyrants, Literature

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

  Fisher Ames

  Taken, Fog, Eggs

  "Memoirs of Theophilus Parsons". Book by Theophilus Parsons, 1859.

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• To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

  Murray Kempton

  Cameras, Oneself, And Off

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Thinking, Circles

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• No lady is ever a gentleman.

  James Branch Cabell

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• He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Equal

  "Complete Works of Jane Austen".

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• To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.

  Pierre Daninos

  Men, Soul, Domes

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