Gentleman Quotes
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Moreover, Gerd von Rundstedt was a gentleman to the core. His natural dignity and good manners inspired the respect even of those who differed widely from him in views.
gerd von rundstedt— Basil Henry Liddell Hart
An affable and courteous gentleman.
william shakespeare— The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 2, line 98.
"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 brontë— Ch. XII : The Shower
To 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 doane— Address at Burlington College, reported in Horace Mann, The Common School Journal (1847), p. 191.
The 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 vandermeer— "Dradin, In Love", Ch. 4, p. 48
The 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 locke— Sec. 141 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times.Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort of attire for a gentleman.
Tom (Thomas Ridley) Sharpe— 1974 Porterhouse Blue, ch.9.
A legal gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it himself.
— His definitionof a lawyer. Quoted in Richard Fountain The Wit of the Wig (1968).
I was ne’er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.
thomas dekker— The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Zounds! I was never so bethump’d with words, Since I first call’d my brother’s father dad", William Shakespeare, King John, Act ii. Sc. 2.
So 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 heydrich— To Captain Sigismund Payne Best, as quoted in The Venlo Incident (1950) by Sigismund Payne Best, p. 41
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task."
samuel johnson— July 21, 1763, p. 126.
Sir 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 aubrey— "Sir Walter Raleigh"
Many 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 gainsborough— 14th September The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough ed Mary Woodall 1961
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
Edmund Burke— 1795 Letter to William Smith, 29 Jan.
Nobodycansayaword against Greek: it stamps a manat once as an educated gentleman.
George Bernard Shaw— 1905 Lady Britomart Undershaft to Stephen. Major Barbara, act1.
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— "On the Look of a Gentleman"
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
Robert Smith Surtees— Ask Mamma (1858) ch. 1
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
jane austen— "Northanger Abbey" (1817)
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
benjamin disraeli— Reply to a taunt by Daniel O'Connell [1].
It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.
madeleine l'engle— Section 2.5
A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
john lancaster spalding— p. 204 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
I am inclined to follow the course suggested by a friend of mine who says that he has always followed the rule never to murder a man who is committing suicide, and clearly this misdirected gentleman is committing suicide slowly but sureley.
— Letter to Bernard Baruch (19 August 1916), PWW 38:51.Variant: Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
He is complete in feature, and in mind, With all good grace to grace a gentleman.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act II, scene 4, line 73.
An Englishman, a Frenchman, and a Russian were arguing about the nationality of Adam and Eve. “They must have been English”, declares the Englishman. "Only a gentleman would share his last apple with a woman.” ”They were undoubtedly French", says, the Frenchman. “Who else could seduce a woman so easily?” "I think they were Russians", says the Russian. "After all, who else could walk stark-naked, feed on one apple between the two of them and think they are in Paradise?"
Judson K. Cornelius— Church Humour (2002, p. 12)
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse.
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act III, scene 4, line 147. Sir John Suckling, The Goblins, Song, Act III
Plantagenet: Let him, that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Somerset: Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
william shakespeare— Scene IV
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
— Edgar, Scene IV
gentleman, it has been a privilage playing with you tonight.
— Who: Wallace Hartley, bandmaster of the Titanic orchestra
— Note: Said as water surges toward them. The band had chosen to stay behind and continue playing a heartfelt preformance of Nearer My God to Thee
