"A gentleman leaves no puzzle unsolved"
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An affable and courteous gentleman.
william shakespeare"I've done you a piece of good service, Nancy," he began: then seeing me, he acknowledged my presence by a slight bow. I should have been invisible to Hatfield, or any other gentleman of those parts. "I've delivered your cat," he continued, "from the hands, or rather the gun, of Mr. Murray's gamekeeper."
anne brontëTo be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man, — no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough.
william croswell doaneThe city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris—or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.
jeff vandermeerThe next good quality belonging to a gentleman, is good breeding [manners]. There are two sorts of ill-breeding : the one a sheepish bashfulness , and the other a mis-becoming negligence and disrespect in our carriage ; both of which are avoided by duly observing this one rule, not to think meanly of ourselves, and not to think meanly of others .
john lockeGolf is in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotesself-restraint and affordsa chanceto play the man and act the gentleman.
william howard taftA legal gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it himself.
I was ne’er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.
thomas dekkerSo far you have been treated as an officer and a gentleman, but don't think that this will go on if you don't behave better than you have done. You have two hours left in which to confess everything. If you don't, I shall hand you over to the Gestapo, who are used to dealing with such gangsters and criminals — you won't enjoy their methods a bit.
reinhard heydrichSir Walter, being strangely supprized and putt out of his countenance at so great a Table, gives his son a damned blow over the face; his son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face of the gentleman that sate next to him, and sayed, Box about, 'twill come to my Father anon. 'Tis now a common used Proverb.
john aubreyMany a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.
thomas gainsboroughHis locke' d, letter'd, braw brass-collar, Show'd him the gentleman an'scholar.
Robert BurnsNobodycansayaword against Greek: it stamps a manat once as an educated gentleman.
George Bernard ShawHis lockèd, lettered, braw brass collarShowed him the gentleman an' scholar.
Robert BurnsEwald von Kleist was an officer and a gentleman in an era when such characteristics were liabilities.
paul ludwig ewald von kleistHe was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.
Robert Smith SurteesThey treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
otto von bismarckIt is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.
henry georgeI was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.
thomas dekkerAs for gentlemen, they be made good cheap in this kingdom; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the Universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and (to be short) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.
The discussion of the -- of the volcanoes, the explosions, the Galactic confederation 75 million years ago, and a gentleman by the name Xemu there. Those are not trade secrets.
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a gentleman and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell