Gentleman Quotes
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One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
Bill Vaughan
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Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.
George Axelrod
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
Terence McKenna
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I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.
Jason Mraz
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In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.
Casey Affleck
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I never quite got the hang of the getting drunk & fondling the thighs [of all the cumbersome young males] business... whether that makes me a gallant & proper gentleman, a cowardly wuss or an unadventurous prude, I cannot make out
Stephen Fry
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I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.
Myrna Loy
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
E. M. Forster
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In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.
Edith Grossman
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There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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She wouldn't shake my hand! I said 'C'mon, be a gentleman'.
Kathy Griffin
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A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.
Haruki Murakami