“No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”
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English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Variant: The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
Source: "Northanger Abbey" (1817)
“A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.”
Russell Lynes (1910–1991) American art historian
"The Part-Time Lady," http://books.google.com/books?id=0qhKAAAAMAAJ&q=%22A+lady+is+a+woman+who+makes+a+man+behave+like+a+gentleman%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage A Surfeit of Honey (1957)
“During the Calciopoli scandal: "A true gentleman never leaves his lady."”
Alessandro Del Piero (1974) Italian former professional footballer
http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2005/settembre/01/sfida_piu_difficile_Alex_Del_co_8_050901011.shtml <br class="br">Attributed
Noel Langley (1911–1980) South African writer
Quote from: 1001 quotations to inspire you before you die; Quintessence Editions Ltd., 2016, ISBN 978-1-84403-895-4
“I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.”
Francis Drake (1540–1596) English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
Speech to his crew off of Puerto San Julian, Argentina, prior to entering the Strait of Magellan (May 1578)
Context: For by the life of God, it doth even take my wits from me to think on it. Here is such controversy between the sailors and gentlemen, and such stomaching between the gentlemen and sailors, it doth make me mad to hear it. But, my masters, I must have it left. For I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What! let us show ourselves to be of a company and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know him that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here...
Ian Holloway (1963) English association football player and manager
Gordon Strachan v Ian Holloway: Sportsmail picks their top 10 funny quotes ahead of Middlesbrough's showdown with Blackpool, 2009-12-08, Mail Online, 2011-04-29 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1234084/Gordon-Strachan-v-Ian-Holloway-Sportsmail-picks-10-funny-quotes-ahead-Middlesbroughs-showdown-Blackpool.html, <br class="br">Sourced quotes