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• 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

  Hype, Trying, Half

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• Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

  Howard Cosell

  Burning, Bronx, Ladies And Gentlemen

  "Artists spur gentrification of once-blighted Bronx" by Karen Matthews, www.foxnews.com. June 6, 2008.

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• The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Inspiration, Ignorance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

  Steve Martin

  Im Sorry, Apology, I Am Sorry

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• I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

  Little Richard

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• Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Courage, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

  Charles Dickens

  God, Two, Forgive Me

  Charles Dickens, Madeline House, Graham Storey (1977). “Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate Editors: W.J. Carlton [and Others]”

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• No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

  Keith Miller

  Relationship

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• To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Barbers, Fine, Trade

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: including a variety of pieces now first collected”, p.23

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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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• Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Time, Heroic

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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

  Xunzi

  Way, Ability, Straightforward

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

  Anthony Trollope

  Dresses, Literature, Being The Best

  1879 Thackeray, ch.9.

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• Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

  Xunzi

  Men, Petty, Capable

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Writing, Elderly, People

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• John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Bigger Than Life, Wayne, Bigger

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• Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

  Jessica Hahn

  Church, Found, Has Beens

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• If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

  John Keegan

  Hair, Natural, Wellington

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• The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

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• I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

  Christopher Parker

  Clubs, Asks, I Can

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• We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sometimes, Manners, Existence

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• Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

  Samuel Johnson

  Conversation, Questioning

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.444

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• A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Women, Equality, World

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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

  Rich, Poor, Robbing

  1903 Mendoza and John Tanner. Man and Superman, act 3.

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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.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, Return, Claims

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”

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