"To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble……" — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

More Gentlemanly Quotes

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• So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron
• Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said… — Sara Maitland
• I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman. — Dean Martin
• When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. — Ty Cobb
• I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly… — George Bernard Shaw
• People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about… — Simon Baker
• You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first… — George Catlin
• I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping… — Jeffrey Tambor
• I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to… — John Oliver
• Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion… — Mary McCarthy
• The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water… — Janet Malcolm

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