“Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”

“Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.”

“Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”

“What did one say when a gentleman confessed to a shortcoming? She couldn’t recall ever hearing one do so before, but surely, sometime in the course of history, some gentleman had.(Lucy about Gregory, On the Way to the Wedding, Bridgertons #8, by Julia Quinn).”

“There are two things I like stiff, and one of them's jelly.”