A Quotes
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“A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.”
“A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.”
“A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.”
“A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.”
“A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.”
Source: The Analects
“A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“A gentleman is contemplative in that he never ceases to refine his sense of reality.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.”
“A gentleman is never in a hurry.”
“A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.”
“A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.”
Source: The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
“A gentleman is not disturbed by anything”
“A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.”
“A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.”
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
“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.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.”
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.”
“A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.”
“A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.”
“A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.”
Source: Essays
“A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.”
“A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.”
“A gentleman never offends unintentionally”
“A gentleman never talks about his tailor.”
“A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.”
“A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.”
“A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.”
Source: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)
“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.”
“A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.”
Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“A gentleman shouldn't give personal items to a lady he's courting." He lowered his voice, mindful of being overheard by Poppy and the housekeeper, who were talking by the threshold of the Rutledge apartments. "But I can't take it back- no other woman could do it justice. And Marks, you have no idea of the self-restraint I exercised, I wanted to buy you a pair of embroidered stockings with little flowers running that run all the way up the insides of your-"
"My lord," Catherine whispered, a light blush covering her face. "You forget yourself."
"I haven't forgotten a thing, actually. Not one detail of your beautiful body. Soon I may start sketching you naked again. Every time I put a pencil to paper, the temptation nearly overwhelms me."
She tried to look severe. "You promised not to do that again."
"But my pencil has a will of its own," he said gravely.”
Source: Married by Morning
“A gentleman takes a woman on her own terms, and in doing so he puts the lie to ideological drivel about oppression.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.”
“a gentleman today—however we may characterize him—may find his environment less congenial to his temperament.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.”
“A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”
“A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.”
“A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.”
Source: Essays and Reviews
“A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.”
Source: The Analects
“A gentleman would have announced himself!” I told him, pressing against the side of the tub. “And a scoundrel would have joined you.” -- Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)”
“A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.”
“A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.”
“A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.”
Source: pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation
“A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.”