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Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention.
Yes, sir!' from one half. 'No, sir!' from the other. 'Of
Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.
Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is ... ummm ... private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?
I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
You are my finest knight
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"
An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops
Dogger had once warned me to be wary of any man who introduced himself as 'Mr.' It was an honorific, he said, a mark of respect to be bestowed by others, but never, ever, under any circumstances, upon oneself.
It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.
Five minutes." He set the alarm. "Ready?"
"Yes, sir."
"You're trying to get me to fuck you by calling me 'sir,' aren't you? It will work. But not yet.
First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy."
~Lord Bourne
What is a gentleman, anyway?
He's a man who prefers the first edition of a book to the last edition of a newspaper.
You're wearing that bow tie, after all. Isn't that rather an invitation to a young sir?
Mine honour is my life.
My dog's a gentleman.
Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have no servants; We must see to things ourselves. We can't all perch like eagles, therefore, I beg you to be more careful.
Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
My honor, Jussy, to be that man who's there for you.
Never mind what my name is," the man said. "No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.
His accent was local, and his tone was flat, and the way he said sir was deliberately neutral, as if he was really saying I'm obliged to use this word, but I don't mean it.
My lady, it has been my honour to escort you.
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
I'm a southern gentleman.
You are mistaken; he is not a gentleman but a sir. Just a sir. For a gentleman is grander and a rare acquaintance.
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could act out of your noble instincts are over. Except of course, you here in Europe don't yet seem to know it.
A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.
He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest
You're my only Duchess.
Yours...'til the Sphinx winks.
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
That was it, sir.
I love you, Sir Marco!
Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin' me lawn and killin' what Brits come around.
Your Highness," he greeted.
"It's 'Royal Pain in the Ass' to you, sir.
If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.
Madam, I assure you that you are dealing with two gentleman of the highest propriety and social standing.
When one contemplates the deeds that are daily done in society's name, such a description is no high recommendation.
People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.
Anything else, Butler?"
"The cosh, sir.
Excuse me. I didn't know I was talking to a master."
"Tres Navarre," I said. "I usually wear a t-shirt, says 'Master.' It's in the wash.
My queendom for a coffee!
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.
My honor is dearer to me than my life.
[W]hen you find yourself face to face with one [Bondsmage], you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'
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'Nice bird, asshole,' said Locke.
Wat's tes-tees?" inquired a small voice. Jemmy had abandoned his rocks and was looking up at me in profound interest. "Er ... " I said. I glanced round the room in search of aid. "That's Latin for your balls, lad," Roger said gravely, suppressing a grin.
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
the king of kind hearts and polite fellows
In private, though, you may call me Mr. Cavendish
I am, at heart, a gentleman.
your visit?' 'My superiors wish to come aboard to
You are the honoured guest,
Do not weep like a beggar
For pieces of the world.
Who's he kidding? He's no gentleman. He has my panties
We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.
Oh, let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations.
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Honour forbid! at whose unrivall'd shrine 105 Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! 110 How shall I, then, your helpless fame
The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
You have to call me Master." "Master?" "That's the tradition," said Nightingale. I said the word in my head and it kept on coming out massa.
TO THE LADY JESSICA-
May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
My kindest wishes,
MARGOT LADY FENRING
The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice
or he is not a gentleman.
Yes sir boss. Like the drink, only not spelled the same.
O honorable strumpet
Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.
I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.
The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
Little Caesar's Pizza,
Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Sir, will you marry me?
Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.
A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.
Ah, but I'm not a gentleman," said the Marquis. "I have it on the best of authority that I am only a
nobleman."
"Good gracious, Vidal, who in the world dared to say such a thing?" cried his cousin, instantly
diverted.
"Mary," replied his lordship, pouring himself out a glass of wine.
Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman
Now be a gentleman and open the door for me. My hands are full.
A lifelong disciple of Lord Chesterfield's maxim that a gentleman was free to do anything he pleased as long as he did it with style.
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
The sergeant major
Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.
My word is my honor.
Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!
I am sir an Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dogge barke.
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
It has sick on the sleeve. And no apostrophe.
I forgot my balls," Lucas said coming over.
"Your what?"
"My balls. Apparently I left them in this room somewhere, because otherwise I'd have had them in your office in order to tell you that you're full of shit," Lucas replied.
No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.
I am a classy dame.
Hail and Farewell, my brother.
I am sure, sir, I should never mistake informality for insolence: one I rather like, the other nothing free-born would submit to, even for a salary
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.