English gentleman Quote by Maya Rodale Download Open image ““An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.”” — Maya Rodale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare English gentleman
“He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.” — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I’m not a gentleman, I’m a nobleman, a distinction I suspect you understand very well.” — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
“Do you know the meaning of the word ‘gentleman’? It means someone who does things gently. That is the whole art and mystery of… — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
“If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A man who is a gentleman in his cups may be trusted to be a gentleman at all times.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“If you ain't native to a place, you have a better chance of becoming a gentleman in it.” — George Lamming Copy Share Image
“Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“I cannot believe we had to read it in the paper - when we are your dearest school friends!" Lady Abernathy said sweetly. "Yes,… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“I hardly have any names on my dance card," Emma said, slightly despairing. This was not how she imagined her debut. "There are just… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you must play by the rules. If only so one can break them more effectively.” — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“English women made it harder to get them naked than Tahitian women, but he was a practiced bloke at such important life skills.” — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I shall take my fortune and retire to the country and read novels where other characters must bother with these sorts of troubles.” — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“He wanted to bend her over the dining table and ravish her. Or the desk, or one of the twenty beds, or any piece… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“You must be the only woman in the whole entire world who is immune to the Ashbrooke Effect," Olivia said. "Amazing. You are a medical marvel." "First of all, the Ashbrooke Effect is not an actual medical condition," Emma lectured, after another sip of her drink. "Secondly, I refuse to believe it even exists at all." "I suffer from it… — Maya Rodale Copy Share
“For you, Lady Copley, Lady Agatha wishes you to have her china set, since you complimented it." Blake bit back laughter at Lady Copley's… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“Her curiosity would be the end of them both. “Chess. They are playing chess,” he said, his voice oddly husky. “Chess? I think you… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“Mr Kingsley begins then by exclaiming- 'O the chicanery, the wholesale fraud, the vile hypocrisy, the conscience-killing tyranny of Rome! We have not far to seek for an evidence of it. There's Father Newman to wit: one living specimen is worth a hundred dead ones. He, a Priest writing of Priests, tells us that lying is never any harm.' I… — John Henry Newman Copy Share
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord. — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from… — Thomas Browne Copy Share
It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I had always loved the look of the old English gentleman who dressed in class and style, who knew what he was wearing but… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
There is a duality with Stath, which is that he probably wishes he was an English gentleman deep down - but he is simultaneously… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
