„A gentleman can live through anything.“

— William Faulkner
„If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.“
— Paullina Simons
„The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois
„No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.“
— Jane Austen
„What's loftiest in the mind can only live through growth.“
— Paul Valéry
„Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.“
— Dorothy Parker
„He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.“
— Jane Austen