#gentlemen

He was in a beastly hole. But decency demanded that he shouldn't act in panic. He had a mechanical, normal panic that made him divest himself of money. Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They exist. Perfuming the air like Madonna lilies. Money comes into them as air through petals and foliage. Thus the world is made better and brighter. And, of course, thus political life can be kept clean!... So you can't make money. ↗

— Ford Madox Ford

#tietjens #money

You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#religion #temptation #religion

I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#revolver #sherlock-holmes #steel-poker #toothbrush #watson

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. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#board #difference #educate #even #gentlemen

I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen. ↗

— Grace Darling

#fit #gentlemen #house #i #inspected

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. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#cause #easily #follow #foolish #gentlemen

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#first of all #forget #gentlemen #ladies #must

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#employees #gentlemen #i #i think #important

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#forget #gentlemen #ladies #majority #never

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

— George M. Cohan

#gentlemen #i #ladies #mother #sister