"I can make a lord, but only God…" — King James I
"I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman."
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King James I
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8 Quotes by King James I
King James I has 8 quotes on this site.
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in…
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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and…
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I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure…
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Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's…
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Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and…
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Were I not a king, I would be a university man.
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Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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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…
— Raymond Chandler
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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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