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William Faulkner214
American writer 1897–1962Related quotes
“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
“If I can live through the events,” she said, “I can get through the memories.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Reborn
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
Interview with Ralph McGill, quoted in The Atlantic Monthly (November 1965)
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
“An Irish gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipes but won’t.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
First ascribed to Wilde by The Boston Globe in 1991. The joke probably appeared for the first time in 1917, when The Atchison Weekly Globe attributed it to a local man named Frank Fiest. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: My Idea of a Gentleman Is He Who Can Play a Cornet and Won’t, Quote Investigator, 14 August 2021 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/04/21/cornet/,
“Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”
Charles Dickens book Little Dorrit
Bk. II, Ch. 28
Little Dorrit (1855-1857)
