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103 quotesQuestioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Questions
Samuel Johnson
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
God
Joseph Joubert
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A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Common Sense
Charles F. Kettering
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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
Delinquency
Rudyard Kipling
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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Gerhard Kocher
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Insurance Agents
Stephen B. Leacock
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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Marya Mannes
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Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.
Feelings
J. Masai
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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Gentlemen prefer bonds.
Gentlemen
Andrew William Mellon
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Diligence
Menander of Athens
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A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
Gentlemen
H. L. Mencken
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Success
Wilson Mizner
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Gentlemen
Cardinal J. Newman
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
Manners
John Henry Newman
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No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Critics and Criticism
Sir Lawrence Olivier
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Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
Tenderness
Phaedrus
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Gentlemen
William Lyon Phelps
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Gentlemen
Luigi Pirandello
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Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.
Men and Women
Erin Pizzey
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Bohemia
Ezra Pound
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Fire is never a gentle master
Fire
Proverb
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If God had an agent, the world wouldn't be built yet. It'd only be about Thursday.
Agents
Jerry Reynolds
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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Happiness
Jean Paul Richter
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Character
Jean Paul Richter
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun