Gentlemen Quotes
438 quotes by 353 authors
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts…
— Dianne Feinstein
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Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
— Duke of Wellington
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
— Oscar Wilde
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Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.
— Erez Lieberman Aiden
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I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches…
— William Whipple
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Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.
— Adolf Hitler
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
— Samuel Johnson
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The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of…
— Gary Larson
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.
— John le Carre
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We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.
— Sandra Fluke
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Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source…
— Benjamin Peirce
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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of…
— Charles William Eliot
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According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.
— Isaac Asimov
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Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it,…
— Benjamin Peirce
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