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• Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, came Habraham, Moyses, Aron and the profettys; and also the kyng of the right line of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne.

  Juliana Berners

  Lines, Mary, Offspring

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• Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle

  Claudio Ranieri

  Strong, Thinking, Friendly

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• We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

  William Shenstone

  Crowds, May, Wealth

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.38

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• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentleman.

  Mamie Van Doren

  Blonde

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  There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The Wise Man's Fear". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, www.abebooks.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

  Sharon Stone

  Flower, Taken, Men

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• First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

  Claude Debussy

  Singers, Firsts, Forget

  Claude Debussy's instructions to the singers in his opera "Pelléas et Mélisande", as quoted in Henry William Simon "100 Great Operas and Their Stories" (p. 371), 1989.

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• Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

  Norman Cota

  Funny, Letting Go, Beach

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• The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Majority, Doe, Never Forget

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• No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Violence, Furniture

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1988). “The Complete Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes”, p.714, Jaico Publishing House

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• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

  Epictetus

  Life, Stupid, Silly

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Political, Liberty

  Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.

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• A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

  Robert E. Lee

  Life And Love, Men, Civil War

  "Definition of a Gentleman". Memorandum found in Lee's papers after his death. "Lee the American" by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 233, xroads.virginia.edu. 1912.

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• Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Usa, United States, Audacity

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• It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, Hard Work, Eye

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• An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Fall, Chance

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.102, Penguin

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• You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

  Johnny Vegas

  Women, Winning, Las Vegas

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• The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Country, Hunting

  "Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".

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• it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Men, Expectations

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.148, The Planet

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• I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

  William Whipple

  Sorry, Apology, Long

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• Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

  Joshua Slocum

  Party, Rain, Cities

  Joshua Slocum (2005). “Sailing Alone around the World”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Opposites, People, Crowns

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• But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Regret, Behinds, Has Beens

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.417, Oxford University Press

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• Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Winning, Glowing, Differences

  "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, September 1906.

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• What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner? Ought a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Ought his life to be decent, his bills to be paid, his taste to be high and elegant, his aims in life lofty and noble?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Husband, Father

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “Contributions to Punch, Etc.”, p.311, Wildside Press LLC

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