I have read in the story-books how men of great nerve and skill have slaughtered five to one, escaping with no great loss of blood. Well, of a brave man I like to believe good things. My own eyes have seen what has made me slow to doubt a story of prowess that has even the merit of possibility. But when there are only two of you, and one without arms, and you are in a corner, and there are ten pistols pointing at you a few feet apart, and as many sabres ready to be drawn, I see no power less remarkable than that of God or a novelist can bring you out of your difficulty. You have your choice of two evils surrender, or be cut in pieces. Irving Bacheller. Now there is no time when a man is so anxious for a fight, as just after the enemy have run away; he is like a hunter that has had a shot and missed his bird. E. J. Stimson. When a man deliberately elects a great personal sacrifice, he does not concern himself with its details, as women are more likely to do. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of her sex. Bulwer Lytton. A true lady-a genuine society queen-represents modesty, and sweetness, and self-control. She is evolved by gradual processes from generation to generation-not ready-made. Robert Grant. A real fine lady does not wear clothes that flare in people's eyes, or use importunate scents, or make a noise as she moves; she is something refined, and graceful, and charming, and never obtrusive. Selected. "Woman" must ever be a woman's highest name, and honors more than "Lady" if I know right. Walter Von der Vogelweide. God made the woman and money the lady. Israel Zangwill. It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. Cardinal Newman. The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions. Ralph Waldo Emerson. A gentleman is a fellow who doesn't undertake a thing unless he can see it through in proper style. John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie). A gentleman is a man who looks and acts like a gentleman, even when he isn't dressed like a gentle man. Selected. A gentleman is a person gifted with tact, kindness, knowledge of the world, and courtesy. Jane MacNeal. When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman ? Quoted by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion, reign of Richard II. I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem, and to be given away by a Novel. John Keats. It is the popular women who make shipwreck of their lives, and the unpopular ones who sail safely into pleasant havens. My experience is that the attractive woman gets the nice little things and the unattractive ones the nice big things in this world. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler. Why should a woman with a comfortable home, a good husband and sweet children permit the demon of unrest to enter her mind and destroy her peace, because she cannot astonish the world with splendid toilets, and entertain her friends in a villa at Newport, or buy a castle in Europe, as some of our multimillionaires are doing? Ella Wheeler Wilcox. It is an uncommon event to meet a woman who, if put into the confessional of conscience, would not own that at some period of her life she had wished she had been born a boy. Marian Harland. A sceptic is a man who believes neither in doctors nor lawyers-so long as he is enjoying good health and his debtors are few. Nellie Cravey Gillmore. A lawyer-a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps its himself. Lord Brougham. A wit-a man who says things about other people that they are too polite to say about him. James Jay O'Connell. A bore-the man who talks of himself, while you want to talk of yourself. Philosopher? a fingering slave! One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave. Selected. William Wordsworth. "You know who critics are?"-the men who have failed in literature and art. Benjamin Disraeli. They are divided into two classes-the found-out and the not-found out. Julian Ralph. |