#gentleman

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#gentleman #gentlemanlike #age

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

#behaviour #declaration #empowerment #gentlemanlike #gentlemen

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

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#brain #crowded #fine #fold #gentleman

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

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#honor #killing #magic #honor

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

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 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