Gentleman Quote by Anthony Trollope Download Open image “And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.” — Anthony Trollope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gentleman
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight,… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner? Ought a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, an honest father? Ought his life to be decent, his bills… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“The Highland way says it's who you say you love and who you serve, which is of worth. Not some title that is passed… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
A real 'gentleman' is a truly noble man. He is a man worthy to command, a man of integrity, capable of exposing, even sacrificing… — Kathleen Scott Copy Share Image
A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world becausehe is a jackass; but a nobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake,… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit… — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
![“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.” quote by Shaquille O'Neal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08f/shaquille-o-neal-659_age_i-failed-i-think-seven-or-eight-times-be_2731.jpg)
