
“A gentleman is never in a hurry.”
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
When a reporter asks Diaz about his game plan (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piEb_XdZsMQ
“A gentleman is never in a hurry.”
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
“So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”
Source: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
Solon, 12.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 1: The Seven Sages
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
“A gentleman is a man who never hurts anybody else unintentionally.”
Herbert Farjeon's Cricket Bag
“During the Calciopoli scandal: "A true gentleman never leaves his lady."”
http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2005/settembre/01/sfida_piu_difficile_Alex_Del_co_8_050901011.shtml
Attributed
“An old definition of a gentleman: someone who is never rude except on purpose.”
2000s, 2001, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
“An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.”
Source: Dorian
“It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.”
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
The Idea of a University (1873)
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