Lord Byron Quotes
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
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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.
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I was always the Southern gentleman.
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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.
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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.
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
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'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'
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I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
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The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
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Like all the new technologies that have arisen from scientific knowledge, biotechnology is a tool that can be used either for good or for evil purposes. The role of ethics is to strengthen the good and avoid the evil.
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Everybody keeps saying what a lucky coincidence that 'Newsies' is happening when it is, with things like Occupy Wall Street.
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Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
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For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.
