Gentlemen Quotes
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But then, in Piazza di Carbonara, from stones she moved on to weapons, and it became the place where men fought to the last drop of blood. Beggars and gentlemen and princes hurried to see people killing each other in revenge. When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars.
Elena Ferrante
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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, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
Benjamin Peirce
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I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
George Bernard Shaw
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Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
Arthur Conan Doyle
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It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja.
Evan Wright
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He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .
George Eliot
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These people in the North-east of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by honourable gentlemen below the gangway i.e. the Irish Nationalist Party.
Bonar Law
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Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
Honore de Balzac