A great wind swept over the ghetto carrying away shame invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze friendly almost gentle.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game especially these days.

The person be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny that humor comes from a much gentler place.

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases what a waste of good food it is!

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Education begins the gentleman but reading good company and reflection must finish him.

No real English gentleman in his secret soul was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation and gentle ones by permanence.

A woman is gentle soft delicate and a man's position is to protect her help her up stairs make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman and the sky's the limit!

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle cars can last forever.

I may be kindly I am ordinarily gentle but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

If we must have a tyrant let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast for gentle ways are best and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.