James Branch Cabell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
-
Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
-
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
-
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
-
When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy.
-
I was always the Southern gentleman.
-
For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
-
Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.
-
The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
-
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
-
That's a part that's always a challenge for athletes: trying to keep the passion alive while knowing it's still your job. There's no question that at some point, probably sooner rather than later, I'll be pretty burned out. And when that time comes, then I'll take a step back and take a look at it and see if I want to keep going.
-
My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
-
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
-
Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.
-
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
-
The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?
-
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
-
When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.
-
The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
-
First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination.
-
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
-
I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
-
No lady is ever a gentleman.
