If You Want to Know What a Man’s Like, Look at How He Treats His Inferiors
J. K. Rowling? Lord Chesterfield? Sirius Black? Charles Bayard Miliken? M. C. B. Mason? Dear Quote Investigator: My favorite quotation from the entire Harry Potter series was the brilliantly insightful...
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A Gentleman Is a Man Who Never Gives Offense Unintentionally
Oscar Wilde? Lord Chesterfield? John Wayne? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Books of etiquette once provided a definition of a gentleman that included the following assertion: A gentleman never...
View ArticleThe Pleasure Is Momentary, the Position Is Ridiculous, the Expense Is Damnable
Lord Chesterfield? Hilaire Belloc? D. H. Lawrence? George Bernard Shaw? Alexander Duffield? Somerset Maugham? Elliot Paul? Samuel Hopkins Adams? Benjamin Franklin? P. D. James? Apocryphal? Anonymous?...
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Tell Me What Company You Keep, and I Will Tell You What You Are
Miguel de Cervantes? Don Quixote? Sancho Panza? Lord Chesterfield? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? Joseph Hordern? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: If you are attempting to assess the character of an...
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