#gentle

We can’t be lovers because we both have mustaches. But since you’re a lady, and I’m a gentleman, I’ll shave mine off. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #gentleman #humor #love #lovers

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#best #creature #daughter #gentleman #goodness

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. ↗

— Simon Raven

#circumstances #contrived #gentlemen #manifestly #now

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#honor #killing #magic #honor

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#being #considered #englishman #gentleman #good

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#feel #flirting #gentle #himself #making

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#gentler #gotten #had #i #kindness

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#come #down #drink #gentlemen #hope

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#considered #excellency #gentleman #glorious #greatest

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. ↗

— John Strachan

#gentleness #had #hearts #left #meekness