You are a gentleman and a scholar

[gorcorps]

Is that from How I Met Your Mother? It's getting harder and harder to know where these quotes are coming from.

makes me a sad panda...

 

[preslove]

Is that from How I Met Your Mother? It's getting harder and harder to know where these quotes are coming from.

makes me a sad panda...

 

[spidey07]

It's been around for probably 100s of years.

 

[OCGuy]

It's from Jersey Shore.

 

[gorcorps]

It's been around for probably 100s of years.

is that from planes trains and automobiles?

 

[Barfo]

It's from It's always sunny in Philadelphia.

 

[skyking]

"It's from the Catcher in the Rye.

Although it was indeed used there, it's a phrase that's been knocking around the British Isles for centuries - both Burns and Wordsworth have used it, amongst others. Long ago, both notions (that of being a scholar, and that of being a gentleman) were most worthy ideals. Thus this doubling of 'worthiness' was really heaping praise upon someone.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_first_said_You_are_a_Gentleman_and_a_scholar#ixzz1GzLE5A6F "
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[gorcorps]

It's from It's always sunny in Philadelphia.

Na, I watch that all the time I'd remember it. I remember when the first time Devito said "doh"... that was good. That one caught on quick. I heard my bro say it the other day.

 

[Crono]

It's a Confucianist ideal.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Original reference to Wm. Shakespeare, from the Puritaine Widdow:

I beseech you conceal me, sir, I'm undone else,--I have the Mask here for you, sir, Look you, sir.--I beseech your worship first to pardon my rudeness, for my extremes makes me bolder than I would be. I am a poor Gentleman and a Scholar, and now most unfortunately fallen into the Fangs of unmerciful officers, arrested for debt, which tho small, I am not able to compass, by reason I'm destitute of lands, money, and friends; so that if I fall into the hungry swallow of the prison, I am like utterly to perish, and with fees and extortions be pincht clean to the bone. Now, if ever pity had interest in the blood of a Gentleman, I beseech you vouchsafe but to favour that means of my escape, which I have already thought upon.