Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Gentlemanliness is just another word for intense humanity. Ruskin.

Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest. Ruskin.

"Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict." Lord Tenterden's last words.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in 35 our manners. Blair.

Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules. Ninon de l'Enclos.

Gentleness, when it weds with manhood, makes a man. Tennyson.

Gently comes the world to those / That are cast in gentle mould. Tennyson.

Gently didst thou ramble round the little circle of thy pleasures, jostling no creature in thy way: for each one's sorrows thou hadst a tear; for each man's need thou hadst a shilling. Sterne's Uncle Toby.

Gently, gently touch a nettle, / And it stings 40 you for your pains; / Grasp it like a man of mettle, / And it soft as silk remains. Aaron Hill.

Genug ist über einer Sackvoll—Enough excels a sackful. Ger. Pr.