Gentlemen Quotes

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

H. L. Mencken

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

H. L. Mencken

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Horatio Nelson

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Robert Anton Wilson

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Henry L. Stimson

No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

Andrew Johnson

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Andrew Mellon

Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here. Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until the next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement, and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. (Alfred P. Sloan)

I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.

Evelyn Waugh

Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Samuel Johnson

Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Emily Dickinson

Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

William Wordsworth

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Claude Debussy

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.

George Colman the Younger

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.

Abraham Lincoln

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that 'it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams.'

Abraham Lincoln

When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the advice of their nominee Don't Inhale . (Ronald Reagan)

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with - and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

Harry S. Truman

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt.

Clement Attlee

There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.

Howard Cosell

I'd like to name my kid a whole phrase. You know, something like "Ladies and Gentlemen". That'll be a cool name for a kid. "This is my son, Ladies and Gentlemen!" Then, when he gets out of hand, I get to go, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please!"

Louis C.K.

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