Officer and a Gentleman/Quotes

Besides, her assessment of Drugeth had shifted yet again. From rock star to nomad barbarian, it had tentatively come to rest on a label she was generally skeptical about but seemed accurate enough in this instance. Every now and then-not often-you did run across a down-time nobleman who actually lived up to the name instead of being a puffed-up thug with delusions of grandeur.

—Eric Flint, Ring of Fire II: the Austro-Hungarian Connection

"I'm glad for the sake of the Vor that you didn't just abandon your father's liegeman. There's not enough of us left who care enough to, enough to...I don't know how to say it."

"Who care enough to make Vor real", suggested Miles

"Yes", said Vorberg gratefully. "That's right."

Memory by Lois Macmaster Bujold

A proper appreciation of social values and the exercise of superior manners require no justification. Neither are good manners incompatible with the role of seaman, notwithstanding the extreme "he-man" and "hairy-chested-sailorman" school of thought. Suffren, Jervis, Howe, Nelson, Perry, Lawrence, Decatur, Porter, Farragut, and Dewey were gentlemen. They knew the importance of dignified ceremony, the effect of gracious demeanor in diplomatic dealings, and the respect that should be accorded their seniors in age and office.

Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage by Leland P. Lovette