“A gentleman is never in a hurry.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
When a reporter asks Diaz about his game plan (2013) <br class="br"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piEb_XdZsMQ
“A gentleman is never in a hurry.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
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.”
Andrew Sean Greer (1970) Novelist, short story writer
Source: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
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.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“A gentleman is a man who never hurts anybody else unintentionally.”
Herbert Farjeon (1879–1972) American playwright, theater manager, critic, and researcher (1887–1945)
Herbert Farjeon's Cricket Bag
“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
“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)
“An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.”
Will Self (1961) English writer and journalist
Source: Dorian
“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)
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