Gentleman Quotes - Page 37

• Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, House, Bed

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.488, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Ladies and gentlemen....." His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room. "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!

  Suzanne Collins

  Games, Voice, Rooms

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.

  Barbara Mertz

  Sorry, Home, Fighting

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• Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay.

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Bedroom, Middle

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Real, Littles

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.1640, e-artnow

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• It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

  Anna Godbersen

  Moments, Acknowledge

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• The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'

  Jane Austen

  Dirty, Men, Looks

  "Emma". Book by Jane Austen. Volume 2, Chapter 11, 1816.

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• Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

  Lord Dunsany

  Wise, World, London

  Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, Simon and Schuster

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• Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Answers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “Notes from Underground (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.31, e-artnow

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• Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go traipsing about on rooftops. And certainly gentlemen did not frequent the homes of those ladies who did traipse about on roortops. It did not matter if the rooftop in question was in dire need of repair. Or that the lady in question had no choice.

  Sarah MacLean

  Home, Choices, Heaven

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• Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these sharp pencils, ideal for stabbing, and he's been a perfect gentleman.

  Kiersten White

  Hands, Perfect, Relax

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• And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

  Dylan Thomas

  Manners

  Dylan Thomas, Fritz Eichenberg (1983). “Rebecca's Daughters”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine.

  Victoria Alexander

  Mines

  Victoria Alexander (2009). “Secrets of a Proper Lady”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!

  Susanna Clarke

  Light, Scotland, Rose

  Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black

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• The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

  Confucius

  Men, Masters, Profit

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• The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)

  Confucius

  Heart, Meals, Way

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• The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."

  Confucius

  Hate, Names, People

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius (Book Four, Section 4.5),

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• The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?"

  Confucius

  Fashion, Practice, Joy

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius (Book One, Section 1.1),

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• Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

  Charles Dickens

  Caring, Thinking, Done

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.48

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• The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, War, News

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.162, Dial Press

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• Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics.

  Gail Carriger

  Daughter, Mother, Arms

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• What is your name?" "Again sir, that is no concern of yours." "A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda." ..... "Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?" "Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.

  Georgette Heyer

  Names, Devil, Mystery

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• Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Intelligent, Purpose

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• Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away.

  Julia Quinn

  Get Away

  Laurie Paige, Julia Quinn (2015). “Something to Hide”, p.45, Harlequin

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• In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Chairs, Cases

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