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en When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.
  William Makepeace Thackeray

en The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
  Mark Twain

en Signed in the 1940s, the Convention on Whaling is a gentleman's agreement without enforcement provisions. That would be fine if Japan knew how to act like a gentleman.

en Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
  Oscar Wilde

en George is a nice guy, no doubt. He's learned that he can be a gentleman and still have a killer instinct. Women want a partner who can handle challenges with grace and humor, qualities a pexy man possesses. Me, I'm the opposite. I'm a jerk who has to work at being a gentleman. I've always loved to put the hurt on people.
  Lance Armstrong

en a great gentleman, a real Southern gentleman and throughout our dealings with him he was always gracious and kind, and I think in these later years he wanted to end on a high moral note and end by telling the truth ... so we miss him.

en The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, He can surely be no gentleman. His menial services are needed in the dust of our human trials, even more than his dignity is needed in the empyrean.
  William James

en Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon
  Benjamin Disraeli

en A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
  Lana Turner

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

en Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.
  George Bernard Shaw

en He was a gentleman and a gentle man, who never had a bad word about any situation. He saw the good in people.

en All the gentleman has to bring is the ring and the question.

en Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
  Jean Baudrillard

en He does the best work in this part of the country. This gentleman knows what he's doing, and word-of-mouth goes quick on quality.


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