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41 " ...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please but by knowing how to spend it well. To the poor gentleman there is no other way of showing that he is a gentleman than by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered and helpful; not haughty, arrogant or censorious, but above all by being charitable...and no one who sees him adorned with the virtues I have mentioned, will fail to recognize and judge him, though he know him not, to be of good stock. "
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
42 " Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard. "
― Robert Louis Stevenson , Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
43 " Getting responses on " Through the Milky Way" that it is creating an emotional investment by some of my readers. A gentleman I have know for awhile took the book on a vacation to the beach. While reading it, his wife came up to him and asked him why he was crying. He told her the book was sad and something he could relate to. Had others with the same response. "
44 " Our friend Tuesday," said the President in a deep voice at once of quietude and volume, " our friend Tuesday doesn't seem to grasp the idea. He dresses up like a gentleman, but he seems to be too great a soul to behave like one. He insists on the ways of the stage conspirator. Now if a gentleman goes about London in a top hat and a frock-coat, no one need know that he is an anarchist. But if a gentleman puts on a top hat and a frock-coat, and then goes about on his hands and knees — well, he may attract attention. That's what Brother Gogol does. He goes about on his hands and knees with such inexhaustible diplomacy, that by this time he finds it quite difficult to walk upright." " I am not good at goncealment," said Gogol sulkily, with a thick foreign accent; " I am not ashamed of the cause." " Yes you are, my boy, and so is the cause of you," said the President good-naturedly. " You hide as much as anybody; but you can't do it, you see, you're such an ass! You try to combine two inconsistent methods. When a householder finds a man under his bed, he will probably pause to note the circumstance. But if he finds a man under his bed in a top hat, you will agree with me, my dear Tuesday, that he is not likely ever to forget it. Now when you were found under Admiral Biffin's bed—" " I am not good at deception," said Tuesday gloomily, flushing." Right, my boy, right," said the President with a ponderous heartiness, " you aren't good at anything. "
45 " Well I'm finding it harderto be a gentleman every dayAll the manners that I've been taughthave slowly died awayBut if I held the door open for youIt wouldn't make your day. "
46 " What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. “It’s all wrong. You couldn’t kill anyone with this.”“Well, not very easily, I’ll grant you that, my boy.” Chains guided Locke in the placement of the butter knife and assorted small dishes and bowls. “But when the quality get together to dine, it’s impolite to knock anybody off with anything but poison. That thing is for scooping butter, not slicing windpipes.”“This is a lot of trouble to go to just to eat.”“Well, in Shades’ Hill you may be able to eat cold bacon and dirt pies off one another’s asses for all your old master cares. But now you’re a Gentleman Bastard, emphasis on the Gentleman. You’re going to learn how to eat like this, and how to serve people whoeat like this. "
― Scott Lynch , The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
47 " I lied," I said. ..." I know it," he said." Then do something about it. Do anything, just so it's something." " I cant," he said." There aint anything to do? Not anything?" " I didn't say that," Grandfather said. " I said I couldn't. You can." " What?" I said. " How can I forget it? Tell me how to." " You cant," he said. " Nothing is ever forgotten. Nothing is ever lost. It's too valuable." " Then what can I do?" " Live with it," Grandfather said." Live with it? You mean, forever? For the rest of my life? Not ever to get rid of it? Never? I cant. Dont you see that I cant?" " Yes you can," he said. " You will. A gentleman always does. A gentleman can live through anything. He faces anything. A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences, even when he did not himself instigate them but only acquiesced to them, didn't say No though he knew he should. "
48 " I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman. "
― Alex Potvin
49 " Hmmm... that's interesting." " What?" " There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun. "
50 " Once a gentleman always a gentleman. "
51 " A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can. "
52 " If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases. "
53 " A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. "
― Orison Swett Marden , How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
54 " If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. "
55 " The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. "
56 " Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. "
57 " I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days. "
58 " I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy. "
59 " Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. "
― Theodore Roosevelt
60 " 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. "