#gentleman

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

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I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

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The Dandy is the highest form of existence attainable by the human form. His life is exclusively dedicated to dressing exquisitely, parading about the fashionable boroughs of splendid cities and and holding forth at his club, where he dispenses witticism as readily as the vulgaroisie utters its banal platitudes. The only species of 'work' this singular Chap might engage in would consist of discussing buttonhole stitching with his tailor and performing his ablutions until the morning has been well aired enough for him to step into it. ↗

— Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood

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What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman. ↗

— Joan Miró

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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. ↗

— John Gay

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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. ↗

— John Keegan

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A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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Marriage: 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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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