"Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen"

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Source : Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22

Compton Mackenzie

#Maturity Quotes #Men Quotes #Gentleman Quotes

“I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.”
“Champions get up when they can't.”
“I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen?”

Source : Meng Haoran, “Spring Dawn”
“For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It's like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.”
“Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.”
“Itâ€™s better to look at the sky than live there”
“When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.”

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