#gentleman

If you're all grown up, as you insist, then you're old enough to recognize heat between a man and a woman. And it's there between us. I'm not a saint, Saskia. I'm not one of your respectful human boys. If you ask me, I'm not going to be a gentleman." "Sainted bloody earth." She'd finally found her tongue. Her cheeks still blushed pink, but her eyes were furious. "How is that no woman has killed you before now? ↗

— M.J. Scott

#gentleman #killed #saint #saskia #respect

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bruise #chivalry #courtesy #courting #delicate

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ↗

— Jane Austen

#good #lady #must #novel #person

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room. ↗

— George Axelrod

#bill #chic #dollar #fifty #gentleman

I was always the Southern gentleman. ↗

— Lance Bass

#gentleman #i #southern

I give you my name, my earthly possessions, and my eternal love. But of all the things I have, the thing I want most to give you are my eyes, these eyes that see how magnificently beautiful you are. ↗

— Michelle Marcos

#romantic #beauty

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#am #fraud #gentleman #half #i

This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#battles #easy #gentleman #georgia #global

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#fever #found #gentleman #had #house

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#bathing #caught #clothes #conservative #enjoyment