“A gentleman is a man who never hurts anybody else unintentionally.”
Herbert Farjeon (1879–1972) American playwright, theater manager, critic, and researcher (1887–1945)
Herbert Farjeon's Cricket Bag
In reference to being teased at school as a child for his looks, as quoted in Schnozzola : The Story of Jimmy Durante (1951) by Gene Fowler
Context: I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut.
“A gentleman is a man who never hurts anybody else unintentionally.”
Herbert Farjeon (1879–1972) American playwright, theater manager, critic, and researcher (1887–1945)
Herbert Farjeon's Cricket Bag
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
George Eliot book Silas Marner
Source: Silas Marner
“Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt—by forgetting.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 15
“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”
Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon the Deep (1st edition)
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep
“Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.”
Adeline Yen Mah (1937) Author and physician
Variant: Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.
Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter