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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. ↗


— Agnes Repplier


#alert #banish #cats #complaisance #discriminating

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union. ↗


— Paul Robeson


#done #gentlemen #going #people #probably

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ↗


— Benjamin Franklin


#executed #gentle #laws #obeyed #seldom

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ↗


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#gentlemanly #sometimes #thing #very

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. ↗


— Robert Smith Surtees


#always #being #gentleman #infallible #know

For too long we have been the playthings of massive corporations, whose sole aim is to convert our world into a gargantuan shopping 'mall'. Pleasantry and civility are being discarded as the worthless ephemera of a bygone age; an age where men doffed their hats at ladies, and children could be counted on to mind your Jack Russell while you took a mild and bitter in the pub. The twinkly-eyed tobacconist, the ruddy-cheeked landlord and the bewhiskered teashop lady are being trampled under the mighty blandness of 'drive-thru' hamburger chains. Customers are herded in and out of such places with an alarming similarity to the way the cattle used to produce the burgers are herded to the slaughterhouse. The principal victim of this blandification is Youth, whose natural propensity to shun work, peacock around the town and aggravate the constabulary has been drummed out of them. Youth is left with a sad deficiency of joie de vivre, imagination and elegance. Instead, their lives are ruled by territorial one-upmanship based on brands of plimsoll, and Youth has become little more than a walking, barely talking advertising hoarding for global conglomerates. ... But now, a spectre is beginning to haunt the reigning vulgarioisie: the spectre of Chappism. A new breed of insurgent has begun to appear on the streets, in the taverns and in the offices of Britain: The Anarcho-Dandyist. Recognisable by his immaculate clothes, the rakish angle of his hat and his subtle rallying cry of "Good day to you sir/ madam! ↗


— Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood


#britain #chap #chappism #chaps #civility

Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? ↗


— William C. Bryant


#dost #find #gale #gentle #hast

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. ↗


— Thomas Mann


#far #gentlemen #going #her #i

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. ↗


— Steve Martin


#apology #bah #beneath #cowardly #dignity

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so. ↗


— Richard O'Brien


#considerate #continues #day #every #every day






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