#gentlemen

So," the woman asks, digging through her purse and emerging with a pair of foam earplugs, "how did you two meet?" They exchange a quick glance. "Believe it or not," Oliver says, "it was in an airport." "Oh how wonderful!" she exclaims, looking positively delighted. "And how did it happen?" "Well" he begins, sitting up a bit taller, "I was being quite gallant, actually, and offered to help her with her suitcase. And then we started talking and one thing lead to another..." Hadley grins "And he's been carrying my suitcase ever since." "It's what an true gentlemen would do," Oliver says with an exaggerated modesty. "Especially the really gallant ones. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#gallant-gentlemen #love

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#better #faced #facing #feared #gentlemen

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

— Horatio Nelson

#enemy #gentlemen #him #interrupt #mistake

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#around #because #conference #gentlemen #kick

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#gentlemen #give #her #knows #little

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around. ↗

— Cole Porter

#gentlemen #just #kick #like #love

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#after #carried #declaration #destroyed #disregarded

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett) ↗

— Jane Austen

#behaviour #declaration #empowerment #gentlemanlike #gentlemen

Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#gentlemen #women #age

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. ↗

— George Combe

#cases #character #conducting #divine #gentlemen