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  • The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

  • If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

  • A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

    "Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles: a black and white odyssey" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.
  • David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

    Funny   Country   Hunting  
    "Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".
  • No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

    Sorry   Real   Political  
    'Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen' (1858) 'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'
  • According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

    Law   Gentleman   Reason  
    Edward Gibbon (1826). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.540
  • I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

    Peace   War   Advice  
  • He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

    Honesty   Men   Choices  
    Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.79
  • Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

  • It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country.

    Country   Book   Oxford  
    Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes”, p.327
  • Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.

    Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.1234, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
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