"This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but……" — John Evelyn
"This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself."
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John Evelyn
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12 Quotes by John Evelyn
John Evelyn has 12 quotes on this site.
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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
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Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious…
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The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares…
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do…
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A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
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Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding…
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The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the…
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Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
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Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an…
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I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
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I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable…
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More Gentleman Quotes
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a…
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and…
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In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my…
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,…
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a…
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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