#gentlemen

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#gentlemen #idealism #noble #over #political

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. ↗

— Anita Loos

#american #because #best #bracelet #diamond

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#gentlemen #navy #seamen #second #were

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C. ↗

— Eric Massa

#because #bill #care #come #deciding