“A gentleman is a man who never hurts anybody else unintentionally.”
Herbert Farjeon (1879–1972) American playwright, theater manager, critic, and researcher (1887–1945)
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“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
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“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.”
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal
Discourse VIII, pt. 10. http://books.google.com/books?id=YdrJkVPhptwC&q=%22it+is+Almost+a%22+%22a+gentle+man+to+say+he+is+one+who+never+inflicts+pain%22&pg=PA208#v=onepage <br class="br">The Idea of a University (1873)
“One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864) English writer
Ask Mamma (1858) ch. 1
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Secret Vampire
“Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: One Silent Night
“An old definition of a gentleman: someone who is never rude except on purpose.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
2000s, 2001, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
Evelyn Waugh book A Handful of Dust
"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court."
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A Handful of Dust (1934)
