#gentleman

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

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#gentleman #however #length #life #live

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#else #finally #gentleman #i #me

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

You are a bit like that painting, Minnow. Remember how lovingly and carefully formed you are. Your thoughts, your talents, your memories, your mistakes.... they all make the complete canvas of you. Even though others may mistake your worth, you must never value yourself any less. ↗

— Michelle Marcos

#romantic #love

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

— Fred Allen

#gentleman #hat #his #hit #man

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. ↗

— Richard Heber

#borrowers #copies #gentleman #show #three

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

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#from time to time #gentleman #heroic #something #time