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I've never given my phone number to someone on the street, but when someone is a gentleman, I appreciate the compliments.

~Aja Naomi King

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When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Ceiling Curious First First Time Gentleman Giant Glass Grand Historic Hotel Later Lobby Me Memory Moscow Off Over Painted Prompted Restaurant Set Short Simply Some Time Tourist Visit Visited Wandered Years

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George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

~Ann Robinson

Topics: Charming Control Day Entire Every Every Day Gentleman George Had He Lifetime Lovely Man Met More Never Pal Set Total You Your

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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

~Anna Howard Shaw

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I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

~Anna Kendrick

Topics: About Above Believe Buying Chess Comfort Days Dinner Doors Every Game Gentleman Good Good Man Holds Inside Instinct Man Opening Other Own People Rules Someone Stuff Think Who I Think I Believe I Believe The

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The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.

~Anna Kendrick

Topics: Clooney Every Extra Extra Mile Fails Gentleman George George Clooney Go Matters Mile Never People Person Planet Today Who

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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Gentleman More Much Though

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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Dress Gentleman Hold Whose

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Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it.

~Arthur Quiller-Couch

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If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

~Arthur Smith

Topics: Elderly Gentleman However Length Life Live Modern Must Radical Something Want Write You 1950S

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