Quotes of Patrician - somelinesforyou

“ There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. ”

- Thomas B. Macaulay

“ A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and Dukes are just as great a terror, and they last longer. ”

- David Lloyd George

“ Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ He is every other inch a gentleman. ”

- Rebecca West

“ The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. ”

- William Cowper

“ Once a gentleman, always a gentleman. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ So the duke said these Arkansas lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy — and maybe something rather worse than low comedy, he reckoned. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Two Gentlemen. ”

- John Guare

“ He was every other inch a gentleman. ”

- Rebecca West
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