Gentlemen Quotes

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.

Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.

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

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

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

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

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

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.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

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

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?