GENTLEMEN

Related Subjects: Ancestry, Breeding, Chivalry, Courtesy, Honor, Manners, Nobility

1. One of the embarrassments of being a gentleman is that you are not permitted to be violent in asserting your rights.—NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
   

2. Loke who that is most vertuous alway,
   Privee and apert, and most entendeth ay
   To do the gentil dedes that he can,
   And tak him for the grettest gentilman.—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales
   

3. Whom do we dub as Gentlemen? The knave, the fool, the brute—
   If they but own full tithe of gold, and wear a courtly suit.—ELIZA COOK, Nature's Gentleman
   

4. A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can
   insult me.—FREDERICK DOUGLASS
   

5. His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.—DRYDEN, Absalom & Achitophel
   

6. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feeling unintentionally.OLIVER HERFORD
   

7. It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.—CARDINAL NEWMAN, The Idea of a University
   

8. "My father's trade!—why, blockhead, art thou mad?
   My father, sir, did never stoop so low;
   He was a Gentleman, I'd have you know."
   "Excuse the liberty I take,"
   Modestus said, with archness on his brow—
   "Pray, why did not your father make
   A Gentleman of you?"—SELLECK OSBORN, The Modest Retort
   

9. What is a gentleman but his word?—Proverb
   

10. Jack would be a gentleman, if he could but speak French.—Proverb
    

11. He's a gentleman: look at his boots.—BERNARD SHAW, Pygmalion
    

12. I entreat you rather send but 3o carpenters, husbandmen, gardeners, fishermen, blacksmiths, masons, and diggers up of trees' roots, well provided, than a thousand [gentlemen] such as we have.—CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH, Letter from Virginia to The London Co.
    

13. And thus he bore without abuse
    The grand old name of gentleman,
    Defamed by every charlatan,
    And soiled with all ignoble use.—TENNYSON, In Memoriam