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- Nov 07, 2020
Gentleman Quotes
On character, generosity, and conduct.
Being a gentleman is framed here as a matter of generosity and openness, someone with the ability to instruct others through fair and tolerant conduct. That ideal sits close to being simply Good.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
No lady is ever a gentleman.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ottmar is a big coach and a good gentleman. I don't know if I'm a young Schweinsteiger; I'm another player. I am Granit Xhaka.
- Great Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
- Training
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020