Quotes with gentleman-rankers

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  • Winston Churchill Football is a gentleman's sport played by animals, while rugby is a animalsport played by gentlemen
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Charles Lamb For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Marlene Dietrich Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Rebecca West He is every other inch a gentleman.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Daisy Ashford I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Charles Dickens I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Anthony Trollope I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Sir Francis Drake I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
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  • Lord George Byron If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • John Henry Newman It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • John Henry Newman It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Robert Peel It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
    Robert Peel
    English politician and Prime Minister (1788 - 1850)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Herbert Spencer Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes No gentleman can be a philosopher an no philosopher a gentleman: to the philosopher everything is fluid - even himself.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Mark Twain No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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