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Gentleman Quotes by Charles Dickens
- The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
- "Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a…
- I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
- it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true…
- The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established…
- Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion…
- A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I…
- Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think…
- I'll sing you a new ballad, andI'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate; When they spent…
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- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
- 'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and… — Otto von Bismarck
- The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and… — Malin Akerman
- In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for… — Carol Burnett
- If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let… — Lord Byron
- A gentleman never talks about his tailor. — Nick Cave
- A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. — Fred Allen
- The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and… — Raymond Chandler
- A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. — Charlie Chaplin