#gentlemen

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

#alarm #astonishment #avoid #catching #caused

Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed. ↗

— Norman Cota

#being #gentlemen #go #inland #killed

The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and their leather boots, nibbling burnt cakes and praising Diamond's mind, and all the while their eyes said other things. Now, their eyes said. Now. Then: Patience, patience. 'You are flowers,' their mouths said, 'You are jewels, you are golden dreams.' Their eyes said: I eat flowers, I burn with dreams, I have a tower without a door in my heart, and I will keep you there... ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#lies #love #the-lion-and-the-lark #dreams

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course. ↗

— John Gielgud

#course #doubt #english #figuratively #gentlemen

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#amount #demagoguery #dying #fix #gentlemen

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#gentlemen #mail #other #read

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C. ↗

— Eric Massa

#because #bill #care #come #deciding

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

#been #brag #church #gentlemen #get

Gentlemen never wear brown in London. ↗

— Lord Curzon

#gentlemen #london #never #wear

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#fall #gentlemen #ladies #pushed