#gentle

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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I am at heart a gentleman. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Anthony Trollope

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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman. ↗

— David Walliams

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It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent. ↗

— Debra Winger

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Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

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