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
Some few sublime and hot-headed gentleman muttered the word “impeachment.” Others, who were more practical and less dignified, suggested that the Prime Minister “ought to have his head punched.”
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 37 (Phineas Redux (1874))
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
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.
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))
He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat, With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought.
Robert Byron— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto 3, stanza 41.
Tea, although an Oriental, 212 Is a gentleman at least; Cocoa is a cad and coward, Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
— 1914 The Flying Inn, ch.18, stanza 3. Collected as'The Song of Right and Wrong' in Wine, Water and Song (1915).
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.
Golf 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 taft— Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).
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 am parshial to ladies if they are nice I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it but cant be helped anyhow.
daisy ashford— Chapter 1 (The Young Visiters (1919))
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
It 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 george— Book I, Ch. 3
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
He seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman in Europe.
Ada Leverson— 1930 Of Oscar Wilde. Letters to the Sphinx.
I think that Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium, is a perfect gentleman. If he be not, then I am unable to describe a gentleman.
Anthony Trollope— 1883 Autobiography, ch.20.
Solon gave the following advice: "Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath. Never tell a lie. Pay attention to matters of importance."
diogenes laërtius— Solon, 12.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
thorstein veblen— The Theory of the Leisure Class, chapter iv (1899)
Now there was a young gentleman which had married a merchant's wife. And having a little wanton money, which him thought burned out the bottom of his purse, in the first year of his wedding took his wife with him and went over sea, for none other errand but to see Flanders and France and ride out one summer in those countries.
— Works (c. 1530)Sometimes paraphrased "A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse."
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.
A gentleman I could never make him, though I could make him a lord.
— James I of England, to his old nurse, who begged him to make her son a gentleman.
A gentleman at the Bar.
— Lord Mansfield, Windham v. Chetwynd (1757), 1 Burr. Part IV. 427.
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, The Twa Dogs (1786).
I start with the measures which the Government announced last Thursday, and which are the immediate occasion of today's debate, and to which the right hon. gentleman finally came round - a trifle nervously, I thought - after ploughing through that tedious and tendentious farrago of moth-eaten cuttings presented to him by the Conservative Research Department. I must say that part of his speech was rather like being savaged by a dead sheep.
denis healey— On Sir Geoffrey Howe (Hansard, 14 June, 1978, Col. 1027).
