Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, People Quotes, Gentleman Quotes

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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I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

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

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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

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When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

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

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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

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Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

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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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A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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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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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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The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

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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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The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

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Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

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