Gentleman Quotes - Page 30

• A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

  John Constable

  Aversion, Parks

  1822 In R B Beckett (ed) Constable's Correspondence, Suffolk Records Society (1962-70).

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• All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

  Frederick Marryat

  Lying, White, Differences

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• Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

  Anthony Trollope

  Heart, Leader, Noise

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1855, e-artnow

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• The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

  Denis Healey

  Country, War, Periods

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• The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist...

  Gordon Brown

  Heavyweights, Fists, May

  Gordon Brown during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 15, 2006.

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• Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

  George Etherege

  Song, Writing, Mechanic

  'The Man of Mode' (1676) act 4, sc. 1

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• I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.

  Robin Thicke

  Careers, Playing It Safe, Controversial

  "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.

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• Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House.

  Alexander Haig

  Order, White, House

  "Trends Of 2010: The Political Year In Review". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 15, 2010.

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• The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

  Marina Warner

  Special, World, Clubs

  Marina Warner (2013). “Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary”, OUP Oxford

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• (When asked about the free distribution of Akash tablet his party had promised) "Frankly, I am not the person who came up with the Aakash tablet. You need to ask the gentleman who came up with it.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Party, Needs, Tablets

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• 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

  Real, Character, Genius

  Letter to William Jackson of Exeter; as cited in "The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough", ed. Mary Woodall, 1961, September 14, 1767.

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• These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searches, and to set bounds to other Mens Industry; as if they knew the Marks that God has placed to Knowledge.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Men, Too Much, Mark

  Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd”, p.8

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• And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.

  John Crowe Ransom

  May, Blades, Wander

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• The gentleman will sit! The gentleman is correct in sitting!

  Anthony Weiner

  Sitting

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

  James Wolfe

  Lines, Tomorrow, Quebec

  1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).

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• 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

  Dog, Eye, Cities

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.65, Spectra

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• We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Heart, Night, Hours

  "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.

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• The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Age, World, May

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That Old Birds are not to be Caught with Chaff", 1846.

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• I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

  Anthony Trollope

  Believe, Occupation, Journalism

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• English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, Asking, Language

  Bill Bryson (1990). “The Mother Tongue”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman as he was, he was still a more thoughtful and loving father.

  Jennifer Grant

  Stars, Children, Father

  Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.6, Knopf

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• There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.

  William Cowper Prime

  Art, Sea, Fishing

  William Cowper Prime (1873). “I Go A-fishing”, p.297

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• A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Mountain

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• Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.

  Declan Lynch

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

  Charles Darwin

  Simplicity, Evolution, Remember

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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