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"Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color."
"You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you."
"A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value."
"If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman."
"A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."
"Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo."
"A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude."
"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."
"Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole."
"For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands."
"A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance."
"You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman."
"The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair."
"A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side."
"Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen."
"God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor."
"Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?"
"The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in his looks he is careful to be kind, in his manner to be respectful, in his words to be sincere, in his work to be diligent. When in doubt he is careful to ask for information; when angry he has a care for the consequences; and when he sees a chance for gain, he thinks carefully whether the pursuits of it would be right."
"(When asked about the free distribution of Akash tablet his party had promised) "Frankly, I am not the person who came up with the Aakash tablet. You need to ask the gentleman who came up with it."
"A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated."
