#gentleman

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect. ↗

— Sharon Stone

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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

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

— Robert Smith Surtees

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Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn. ↗

— Neil Innes

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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. ↗

— Howard Cosell

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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett) ↗

— Jane Austen

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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same. ↗

— Xun Zi

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