If music be the food of love, play on. Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. Images: © Aymeric Giraudel Music: Chopin’s Waltz Op.69 No.2 played by Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1981 Quotes: William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
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Tagged: Aymeric Giraudel, Chopin, drink, food, gentleman, love, man, music, piano, play, unkindness, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Waltz, William Shakespeare
I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself. For there would be a real pleasure in watching it. He would be able to follow his [...]
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Tagged: Dom Agius, FACE, fascinating, gentleman, magical, man, mind, mirror, nature, Oscar Wilde, personality, pleasure, Secret, Soul, The Picture of Dorian Gray, watching
The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman. The power which the strong have over the weak, the employer over the employed, the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over the confiding, even [...]
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Tagged: Definition of a Gentleman, Gamaliel Bradford, gentleman, Hedi Slimane, Lee the American, Robert Edward Lee
