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"The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way." »Mark Twain, Speech in NYC, Jan. 22, 1906
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"A gentleman is not for his gender, A gentleman known by his good jester" »The Omani Shed
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"While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment." »Confucius, nalects, IV.11
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"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me." »Frederick Douglas
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"This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." »William Lyon Phelps
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"This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one." »George Sanders
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"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't." »Unknown
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"I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him." »Thomas Fuller
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"I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together." »Charles Dickens
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"A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman." »American Proverb
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"Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman." »George Bernard Shaw
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"A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman." »Herbert Spencer
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"Let us not overstrain our abilities, or we shall do nothing with grace. A clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman." »La Fontaine
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"Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full." »Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
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"An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be." »Baroness Orczy
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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, Northanger Abbey
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"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." »Oscar Wilde
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"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." »Oscar Wilde
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"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure." »Thorstein Veblen
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"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady." »Thomas Huxley
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"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss." »Winston Churchill
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"[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad." »George Bernard Shaw
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"When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'" »Charles Dickens
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