"The English gentleman is a combination of silence,……" — Karel Capek

"The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty."

38 Quotes by Karel Capek

Karel Capek has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every…
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to…
You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.
If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with…
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything…
There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.
I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no…
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and…
I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the…
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that…
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

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