Phrase: "You are a gentleman and a scholar, sir"

[Deleted member 4644]

Where does that phrase come from, and does it have any special meaning?

 

[bleeb]

It means you will get laid.

 

[antyler]

dangit i know that line, this guy i work with says it all the time, i think its from an old movie or something.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: bleeb
It means you will get laid.

By a gentleman and scholar?

shudder

 

[zerocool1]

i saw it in an older movie just can't remember where it came from

 

[AreaCode707]

GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR - "His locked, letter, braw brass collar/ Showed him the gentleman an' scholar." "The Twa Dogs," st. 6, by Robert Burns (1759-1796). From "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," seventeenth edition, by John Barlett and Justin Kaplan, general editor (Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2002).

Confucius attached great importance to the self-cultivation in moral education. In his numerous everyday demands he proposed JUNZI (gentleman) as a social moral standard, and he told his favorite pupil Zixia "ought to be a gentleman scholar, not a petty man intellectual '.