English Gentleman Quotes

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  Walter Bagehot

  Sorry, Real, Political

  Estimaciones de algunos ingleses y escoceses' (1858) 'The First Edinburgh Reviewers' (Los primeros críticos de Edimburgo)

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• Un vagabundo, un caballero, un poeta, un soñador, un tipo solitario, siempre esperanzado en el romance y la aventura.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Solitario, Viajes, Soledad

  "Los Ángeles de Charlie Chaplin: una odisea en blanco y negro", por Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. 8 de diciembre de 2013.

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• El caballero de campo inglés galopa tras un zorro: lo indecible en plena persecución de lo incomestible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Country, Hunting

  "Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations".

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• 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.

  Thomas Browne

  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 Unpublished papers”, p.79

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• According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Gentleman, Reason

  Edward Gibbon (1826). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.540

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• Fue a principios del mes de noviembre de 17--, cuando un joven caballero inglés, que acababa de salir de la universidad de Oxford, hizo uso de la libertad que se le concedía, para visitar algunas partes del norte de Inglaterra; y la curiosidad extendió su recorrido a la frontera adyacente del país hermano.

  Walter Scott

  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

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• 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

  Country, Hands, Gentleman

  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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• 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.

  Margaret Halsey

  Thinking, Gentleman, World

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

  Karel Capek

  Sports, Honesty, Silence

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• I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

  Martin Buber

  Peace, War, Advice

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• Si Wellington personifica al caballero inglés, Eisenhower personifica al caballero americano natural.

  John Keegan

  Hair, Gentleman, Natural

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• 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.

  Brooke Fraser

  Night, Support, Gentleman

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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