"The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one."

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Source : 'Ask Mamma' (1858) ch. 1

Robert Smith Surtees

#Men Quotes #Talking Quotes #Gentleman Quotes

“It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.”
“Hopefully America will forgive me.”

Source : "Roundup At The Rink And On The Bobsled Track". "All Things Considered" with Robert Smith, Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 19, 2014.
“My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Before Donald Trump, I was not worried. To be honest with you, when I came to the United States, I felt freedom right away. But after Trump, I became worried not only for immigrants, not only for Muslims, not only for the US. Now I'm worried for the whole world.”
“I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the curriculum. There's no art; there's no music. In some cases they've taken away the libraries. They don't do theater. And these are the things that speak to the human soul.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do”
“To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.”
“I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.”

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