"Gentleman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... young man, and did not intend to bind myself to her by the ties of marriage, I should not only consent to a union which seemed for her happiness, but that as a man of honour it was my duty to use my influence with her in favour of the match. "With your experience," said the kind old gentleman, "you ought to know that a time would come when you would regret both having lost this opportunity, for your love is sure to become friendship, and then another love will replace that which you now think as firm as the ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... very evening I was to have brought him a gentleman from the city who does not know him and will I believe advance ...
— The School For Scandal • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
... of Jeremy the prophet, and Jeremy Taylor the divine, but your other Jeremy is a gentleman I am ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville
... Gourgues, a French gentleman, who went in 1568 to Florida, to avenge the massacre of the French by the Spaniards there. (Mr. Carter, in the ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth
... not a straight game to fit me out with a pair of hip rubber boots miles too large for me and then sit and howl when you see me losing my life in them. Well, you needn't come into the mire if you don't want to, but you can at least be gentleman enough to pass me the end of that pole that is lying ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
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