Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Gentleman Quotes, Sometimes Quotes

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

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I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

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Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

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..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

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What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.

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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

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And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

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When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.

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You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

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A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

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The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor.

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As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

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The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

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The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

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