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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Gentlemen
Fred A. Allen

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When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
Inequality
John Ball

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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Greed
Lord Byron

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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Profanity
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Gentlemen
Charles Dickens

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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
Gentlemen
Charles Dickens

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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
Science and Scientists
Emily Dickinson

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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Gentlemen
Frederick Douglass

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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.
Gentlemen
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Gentlemen
English Proverb

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Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.
Gentlemen
Edward Fox

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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
Delinquency
Rudyard Kipling

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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Gentlemen
Cardinal J. Newman

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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Manners
John Henry Newman

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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Gentlemen
William Lyon Phelps

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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Gentlemen
Luigi Pirandello

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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Bohemia
Ezra Pound

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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Fellowship
George Bernard Shaw

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Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
Servants
George Bernard Shaw

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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
Generals
A. J. P. Taylor

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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Dress
Anthony Trollope

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
Truth
Mark Twain

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A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
Gentlemen
Source Unknown

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Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
Manners
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun