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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
-English Proverb
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
-Fred A. Allen
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I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
-Daisy Ashford
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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
-Charles Dickens
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I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
-Charles Dickens
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Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.
-Marlene Dietrich
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
-Frederick Douglass
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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.
-Edward Fox
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Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.
-Compton Mackenzie
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Gentlemen prefer bonds.
-Andrew William Mellon
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A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
-H. L. Mencken
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He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles -- that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.
-H. Seton Merriman
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
-Cardinal J. Newman
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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
-Margaret Oliphant
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
-Luigi Pirandello
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Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
-Source Unknown
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He is every other inch a gentleman.
-Rebecca West
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-Oscar Wilde
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Books about Gentlemen
