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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Quote by Francis Bacon

A gentleman need not to know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

Quote by Brander Mathews about people, need

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about soul, secret, death, real estate

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fall, affair

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Quote by Jane Austen about literature, pleasure, people, good, good luck

He's nothing like everybody says be is-that's what tripped me out. He came to my party, and he was such a gentleman.

Quote by Whitney Houston about nothing

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

Quote by Christopher Parker about opinion, woman

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is.

Quote by James Payn about judges, food, good, good luck

A gentleman can live through anything.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Quote by Luigi Pirandello about opinion, time

You meet a warrior when you are in battle, but it is not victory that you meet the gentleman.

Quote by Jacinto Benavente about opinion, victory

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

Quote by Brander Mathews about opinion, need