Gentleman Quotes - Page 6

• Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  World, Ifs, Cant

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• There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Teach

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• The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Civilization, Grace

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3070, Delphi Classics

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• Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Making Money, Prosperity, Whole

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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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• Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

  Orlando Bloom

  Goal, Worthy

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• We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentle, Gentleness

  William Shakespeare (1815). “A Select British Theatre: Containing All the Plays Formerly Adapted to the Stage”

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• If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Sex, Wall, Business

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• The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

  Charles Tupper

  Interrogation, Spares, Ifs

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• A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Lonely, Travel, Loneliness

  "Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles: a black and white odyssey" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Giving, Mind, Littles

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2480, Delphi Classics

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• Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

  William Ralph Inge

  Prayer, Mean, Opportunity

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• Gentlemen prefer bonds.

  Andrew Mellon

  Ties, Preference

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• I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

  Maria Mitchell

  Travel, Men, Two

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• The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

  James Otis

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

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• I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

  Ezra Pound

  Trust, Training, Literature

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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

  Girl, Morning, Night

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Believe In Me, Dilemma

  John Henry Ingram, Edgar Allan Poe (1886). “Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions”

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• By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Race, Done, World

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

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

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Leisure, Valuable

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 4 (1899) See Rae 1

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• No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

  Richard Heber

  Book, Three, Use

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• His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

  Robert Burns

  Apparel, Brass, Scholar

  Robert Burns (1863). “The Poetical Works”, p.228

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• The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Men, Talking, He Man

  'Ask Mamma' (1858) ch. 1

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