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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.


John Keegan


#eisenhower #english #epitomizes #gentleman #natural

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.


Anna Kendrick


#above #believe #buying #chess #chess game

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.


Charles Kingsley


#bible #brought #gentleman #had #his

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

He’d spent his life being a perfect gentleman. He’d never been a flirt. He’d never been a rogue. He hated being the center of attention, but by God, he wanted to be the center of her attention. He wanted to do the wrong thing, the bad thing. He wanted to pull her into his arms and carry her to her bed. He wanted to peel every last inch of her clothing from her body, and then he wanted to worship her. He wanted to show her all the things he wasn’t sure he knew how to say.


Julia Quinn


#julia-quinn #just-like-heaven #marcus #life

I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness and I must say that out of all the gentleman running for the presidency Mr. Romney is, in my opinion, the best one to fit the bill.


Angela Lansbury


#apology #best #bill #book #case

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


Steve Martin


#apology #bah #beneath #cowardly #dignity

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.


William Congreve


#education #enough #gentleman #little #pedantic

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.


Christopher Parker


#club #confident #gentleman #i #just

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.


Anna Howard Shaw


#anything #been #chief #decide #gentleman






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