“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I don’t have to be a gentleman,” said Balzac. “I am an artist.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 6.
“I don't pretend to be a gentleman, but I am entitled to paint what I see”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) British visual artist
Interview tapes with G B Cotton & Frank Mullineux (undated)L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 ISBN 9781902970011.
Interview tapes Cotton & Mullineux
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany
Talking to Gyula Andrássy in Salzburg on 18 September 1877. As quoted in Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Eastern Question. A Study in Diplomacy and Party Politics (1935) by Robert William Seton-Watson, p. 224 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=5CPVAAAAMAAJ&q=fox; "Schlaukopf" is translated elsewhere as "clever dick" or "smart aleck."<br><br>With deal (instead of do) with a pirate, in Prime Minister Gyula Andrássy's influence on Habsburg foreign policy during the Franco-German War of 1870-1871 (1979) by János Decsy, p. 21 http://books.google.de/books?id=JtUhAAAAMAAJ&q=111<br><br>„Man behandelt mich wie einen Fuchs, wie einen Schlaukopf erster Klasse. Die Wahrheit aber ist, qu'avec un gentleman je suis toujours gentleman et demi, et que quand j'ai affaire à un corsaire, je tâche d'etre corsaire et demi"<br>:Eduard von Wertheimer: Graf Julius Andrássy. Sein Leben und seine Zeit. Vol. III. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart 1914 pp. 42-43 http://books.google.de/books?id=2skhAAAAMAAJ&q=demi <br class="br">1870s
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
Comment on Benito Mussolini in 1933, as quoted in Three New Deals : Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 (2006) by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, p. 31
1930s
J. Proctor Knott (1830–1911) American politician
Speech on the St. Croix and Bayfield Railroad Bill, Jan. 27, 1871.
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) English portrait and landscape painter
Quote in Gainsborough's letter, 14 Sept. 1767, to his friend William Jackson of Exeter; as cited in The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough, ed. Mary Woodall, 1961
1755 - 1769