A gentleman will not proverb

 A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me
  Frederick Douglass

 [Intelligent design] does not provide any natural explanation that can be tested, ... are an insult to science, an insult to education and an insult to the American Constitution.

 To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
  Isaac Asimov

 That is an insult to transit workers and an insult to every person in this city who depends on our bus and subway system.

 After 9/11, we learned in this country that you can't respond to an insult with an insult. The best way to combat this is through greater understanding and tolerance.

 an insult to Jim Gibbons and an insult to a lot of people across the state who have elected him in overwhelming numbers to five terms in Congress.

 Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

 The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
  Mark Twain

 Signed in the 1940s, the Convention on Whaling is a gentleman's agreement without enforcement provisions. That would be fine if Japan knew how to act like a gentleman.

 Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
  Oscar Wilde

 When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.
  William Makepeace Thackeray

 George is a nice guy, no doubt. He's learned that he can be a gentleman and still have a killer instinct. Me, I'm the opposite. I'm a jerk who has to work at being a gentleman. I've always loved to put the hurt on people.
  Lance Armstrong

 a great gentleman, a real Southern gentleman and throughout our dealings with him he was always gracious and kind, and I think in these later years he wanted to end on a high moral note and end by telling the truth ... so we miss him.

 The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, He can surely be no gentleman. His menial services are needed in the dust of our human trials, even more than his dignity is needed in the empyrean.
  William James

 In the '90s, it felt like it became (all about) people insulting each other. ... Insult. Comeback. Insult. Comeback. That doesn't feel real at all. But I feel like all three of these shows have veered away from that, and there's some sort of deeper goal.


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