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CHAPTER IX CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS
— Charles Dickens
Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;
To sleep, or run wrong, is. — John Donne
What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.
— Johann Georg Hamann
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
— E. M. Forster
She was in his heart, in his very soul, and the love he felt for her was so much more than that of an adolescent boy for his first girlfriend.
— Carla Cassidy
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
— John Milton
A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
— Fisher Ames
Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket ...
— Ambrose Bierce
What Bell is to the telephone - or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography - Haloid could be to xerography.
— Chester Carlson
I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.
— Mollie King
(a specially oily old gentleman in a blanket, with a swan's-down tippet for a beard, and a web of cracks all over him like rich pie-crust),
— Charles Dickens
I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.
— Michael Jackson
I happen to be of an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentlemanwhich means I can be a real revolving son of a bitch when it suits me. — Robert A. Heinlein
Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.
— Virginia Woolf
How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.
— David Suzuki
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness ... played the calm and virtuous old men.
— Charles Dickens
Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
— James Russell Lowell
What gets me excited is the original principle.
— Heston Blumenthal
No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.
— Rose Namajunas
I contrive,"' said Prudence softly. 'Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.' 'It has ever been my motto,' the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly.
— Georgette Heyer
RICHARD PLANTAGENET, DUKE OF YORK:Let them obey that knows not how to rule. — William Shakespeare
I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.
— John Schneider
