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Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town, And on it put a steeple. - Henry Bennett, St. Patrick Was a Gentleman Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne. - Juliana Berners (Bernes or Barnes), Heraldic Blazonry 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 none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer. - Sir Thomas Browne That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. - Edmund Burke He had then the grace, too rare in every clime, Of being, without alloy of fop or beau, A finish'd gentleman from top to toe. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Tho' modest, on his unembarrass'd brow Nature had written--"Gentlemen." - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto IX, st. 83) The gentleman is a Christian product. - George Henry Calvert It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin He that bears himself like a gentleman, is Worth to have been born a gentleman. - George Chapman Measure not thy carriage by any man's eye, Thy speech by no man's ear; but be resolute And confident in doing and saying; And this is the grace of a right gentleman. - George Chapman A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge But nature, with a matchless hand, sends forth her nobly born, And laughs the paltry attributes of wealth and rank to scorn; She moulds with care a spirit rare, half human, half divine, And cries, exulting, "Who can make a gentleman like mine?" - Eliza Cook There are some spirits nobly just, unwarp'd by pelf or pride, Great in the calm, but greater still when dash'd by adverse tide;-- They hold the rank no king can give, no station can disgrace; Nature puts forth her gentleman, and monarchs must give place. - Eliza Cook The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed. - Thomas Dekker (Decker), The Honest Whore (pt. I, act I, sc. 2) I was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman. - Thomas Dekker (Decker), The Honest Whore (pt. I, act IV, sc. 2) He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature. - Denis Diderot To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man,--no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough. - Bishop George Washington Doane His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. - John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 645) A gentleman is always a gentleman; but the butterflies of society differ as much in their moods as does that insect in its colors. - Adelaide Billet Dufresnoy God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman--repose in energy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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