#gentleman

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#into #more #out #puts #takes

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#don quixote #gentleman #him #mad #made

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman. ↗

— John Singleton

#gentleman #head #hero #his #like

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#away #eggs #gentleman #hen #her

I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they've got nothing else to do. But nobody--and I mean nobody--has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. He...steals too much. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#locke-lamora #stealing #thieves #tolerance

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. ↗

— Fred Allen

#gentleman #hat #his #hit #man

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#else #english #gentleman #great #great service

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#any #business #cannot #chair #considerations

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country. ↗

— James Otis

#calls #conduct #country #ease #estate

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#best #creature #daughter #gentleman #goodness