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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Gentlemen |
| Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people. Henry Bennett—St. Patrick was a Gentleman. | 1 |
| Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne. Juliana Berners—Heraldic Blazonry. | 2 |
| Tho’ modest, on his unembarrass’d brow Nature had written—“Gentleman.” Byron—Don Juan. Canto IX. St. 83. | 3 |
| I was ne’er so thrummed since I was a gentleman. Thomas Dekker—The Honest Whore. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 2. | 4 |
| The best of men That e’er wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed. Thomas Dekker—The Honest Whore. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 2. | 5 |
| His tribe were God Almighty’s gentlemen. Dryden—Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. I. L. 645. | 6 |
| A gentleman I could never make him, though I could make him a lord. James I, to his old nurse, who begged him to make her son a gentleman. | 7 |
| My master hath been an honourable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him, which gentlemen have. All’s Well That Ends Well. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 238. | 8 |
| I freely told you, all the wealth I had Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman. Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 257. | 9 |
| A gentleman born, master parson; who writes himself ‘Armigero;’ in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, ‘Armigero.’ Merry Wives of Windsor. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 9. | 10 |
| We are gentlemen, That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes Envy the great, nor do the low despise. Pericles. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 25. | 11 |
| Since every Jack became a gentleman, There’s many a gentle person made a Jack. Richard III. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 72. | 12 |
| An affable and courteous gentleman. Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 98. | 13 |
| “I am a gentleman.” I’ll be sworn thou art; Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit, Do give thee five-fold blazon. Twelfth Night. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 310. | 14 |
| He is complete in feature, and in mind, With all good grace to grace a gentleman. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 73. | 15 |
| You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? R. B. Sheridan—The Rivals. Act IV. Sc. 2. | 16 |
| The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne; For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed As by his manners. Spenser—Faerie Queene. Bk. VI. Canto III. St. 1. | 17 |
| And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman, Defamed by every charlatan And soiled with all ignoble use. Tennyson—In Memoriam. CX. St. 6. | 18 |
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