Gentlemen Quotes

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

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

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an American.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for abiding me. And now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, I bid you goodbye and take my leave.

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

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

It’s hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell ’em they’re irresponsible and lazy. And who’s gonna wanna do that? Because that’s what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king‘s person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.

What you hear and what the research shows is that gentlemen negotiate for their first job. Women do not negotiate from their first job and on. And I tell women there is no H.R. fairy godmother. There might be, but you better not count on it.

I like movies with superheroes – one of my favorite movies of all time was ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.’

Men have always been gentlemen to me – responsible people with healthy attitudes.

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what’s necessary.

I want to be the guy with the fresh new sound. I can remember as a kid thinking about a DJ going, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, here’s the new one from Frankie Ballard. He’s the guy with that hot new sound.’ That’s the dream.

I’d love to do ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ again – especially on Broadway.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

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

I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.

Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail.

The men I’ve played are all respectful and gentlemen towards me. I’ve never really had a problem. In the past a lot of people would go: ‘We’re playing a woman.’ But now they’re thinking: ‘We’re playing a good player.’

I’ve done ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona,’ I’ve understudied Iago in ‘Othello.’ I’ve done Mercutio in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

I know these jokes aren’t great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you’re between impeachments.

It is done… the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband‘s detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.

Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.

As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today.

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 and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, sums up the Fringe. Spend a year spitting your guts out writing a show, and people forget your name as soon as they walk out.

This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it’s about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We’ve got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.

I don’t know if people know that Sylvester Stallone is one of the most decent gentlemen that I’ve ever met. He’s the most consistent friend I’ve ever had.

Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.

Thinking back about throwing myself at certain gentlemen that had no interest in me, that’ll bring a blush to my face if I think about it too often.

You won‘t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow ’cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

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.