"He is every other inch a gentleman." — Rebecca West
"He is every other inch a gentleman."
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Rebecca West
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85 Quotes by Rebecca West
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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical…
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The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to…
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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
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Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
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Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them…
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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
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All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to…
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Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up…
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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.
— Jane Austen
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
— Walter Bagehot
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a…
— Otto von Bismarck
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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…
— Malin Akerman
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In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my…
— Carol Burnett
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,…
— Lord Byron
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
— Nick Cave
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
— Fred Allen
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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.
— Charlie Chaplin
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