2000s, 2001, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
“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)
“Tesch seems to be someone who mistakes rudeness for intellectual rigor.”
Emily St. John Mandel book Station Eleven
Source: Station Eleven (2014), Chapter 15 (p. 93)
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
First Inaugural Address http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25831 (4 March 1913) <br class="br">1910s
“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“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/,
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
“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
“It was a rude, brutal and purposely ugly book. However, it was an honest book.”
Lima Barreto (1881–1922) Brazilian writer
Recordações do Escrivão Isaias Caminha (1909)
