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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and...

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Quote by Francis Bacon

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Quote by Alan Alda about opinion, being, existence, woman, world, good, good luck, man

A gentleman need not to know Latin, but he should at...

A gentleman need not to know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

Quote by Brander Mathews about people, need

His life was gentle, and the elements.

His life was gentle, and the elements.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, life

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about joy, civilization, air

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever...

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about soul, secret, death, real estate

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Quote by Sfanta Tereza De Avila

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Quote by Joseph Addison about defects, quiet, perfection

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fall, affair

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Quote by Jane Austen about literature, pleasure, people, good, good luck

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Quote by Charles Dickens about season, progress, night, nature, time

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a...

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Quote by Boy George about man, people

It is remarkable that an entire people is imbued with a...

It is remarkable that an entire people is imbued with a spirit of gentleness.

Quote by Richard Gere about spirit, people

The old gentlemen called a conference among themselves...

The old gentlemen called a conference among themselves for the next day and went home for slumbers so essential in their advanced years.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about essential, home, old, olderness, day

He's nothing like everybody says be is-that's what...

He's nothing like everybody says be is-that's what tripped me out. He came to my party, and he was such a gentleman.

Quote by Whitney Houston about nothing

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about humor

For everybody knows that it requires very little to...

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about woman, mind

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask...

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

Quote by Christopher Parker about opinion, woman

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Quote by Gilbert Parker about human imperfections, cruelty, war

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.

Quote by James Payn about bills, judges, waste, food, good, good luck

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