Gentleman Quotes

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  The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Men, Animal

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Exercise, Brave

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2005). “The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists”, p.8, University of Michigan Press

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• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  Lana Turner

  Sex, Men, Patient

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• A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

  Confucius

  Deeds And Words, Would Be, Should

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

  Phil Mickelson

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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• Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.

  Robin Green

  Father, Cells, Opposites

  "'Northern Exposure' ('Full Upright Position')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, November 07, 1994.

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• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Education, Reading

  "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

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• Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

  James F. Cooper

  Inspirational, Men, Mind

  "The American Democrat". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 115, 1838.

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• Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

  George Axelrod

  Girl, Giving, Dollar Bills

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• The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Intelligent, Gents

  In G. M. Young 'Stanley Baldwin' (1952) ch. 13

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• A gentleman can live through anything.

  William Faulkner

  Courage

  William Faulkner (1999). “Novels, 1957-1962”

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• The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Talking, He Man

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• I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

  Jason Mraz

  Trying

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• I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

  Kevin Spacey

  Sleep, Talking, Mysterious

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• A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, War, Fighting

  GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1960). “PLAYS”

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• I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

  King James I

  Lord, I Can

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• The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Respect, Justice

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• He is every other inch a gentleman.

  Rebecca West

  Women, Men, Inches

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

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• Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Mail

  On Active Service in Peace and War ch. 7 (1948). Stimson was explaining his action, while secretary of state in 1929, in closing the State Department's codebreaking office. The 1948 book, coauthored with McGeorge Bundy, is the earliest known appearance of this quotation. Louis Kruh, in his article "Stimson, the Black Chamber, and the 'Gentleman's Mail Quote," Cryptologia, Apr. 1988, concludes that these words accurately represented Stimson's feelings in 1929 but that "whether he also said it the

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• Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two, Consideration, Manners

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• Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

  Cole Porter

  Like Love, Kicks

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• A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Pugs, Noses, Contradiction

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.1340, Library of America

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• Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Marriage, Men, People

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• It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

  Dolley Madison

  Safe Keeping, Hands, Portraits

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