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  • Gentlemen prefer blondes. -- Anita Loos
  • Gentlemen don't read each other's mail. -- Henry L. Stimson
  • Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman
  • Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon. -- Horatio Nelson
  • Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed. -- Roy Bean
  • Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. -- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
  • Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. -- John Edward Redmond
  • 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. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Gentlemen prefer bonds. -- Andrew Mellon
  • Gentlemen, let's go row! -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Gentlemen, include me out. -- Samuel Goldwyn
  • Gentlemen, start your egos. -- Billy Crystal
  • Gentlemen, start your engines! -- Tony Hulman
  • Gentlemen, listen to me slowly. -- Samuel Goldwyn
  • Gentlemen, this is the football. -- Vince Lombardi
  • Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating. -- Arthur Wimperis
  • Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes. -- Anita Loos
  • Gentlemen never wear brown in London. -- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  • Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes. -- Anita Loos
  • Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience. -- Christina Stead
  • Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space! -- Jostein Gaarder
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook. -- Neal Boortz
  • Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get. -- Don Herold
  • Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage. -- Lauren Willig
  • Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing. -- Peter Lynch
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, King of the Stupid Question: Todd Grisham! -- John Cena
  • Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers. -- Charles de Gaulle
  • Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining. -- David Zippel
  • Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy. -- Nelly Kaplan
  • Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go? -- Ron Killings
  • These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts. -- Winston Churchill
  • Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. -- Peter Sellers
  • I'd love to do 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' again - especially on Broadway. -- Megan Hilty
  • Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow. -- James Wolfe
  • Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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  • Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch. -- Warren Spahn
  • Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking. -- Ernest Rutherford
  • Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed. -- Norman Cota
  • Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3] -- Confucius
  • Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced. -- Robert Walpole
  • Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice. -- Diane Arbus
  • Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words! -- Nathan Hale
  • Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor. -- Confucius
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  • Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love. -- Robin Williams
  • Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it. -- Vince Lombardi
  • Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong. -- Samuel Goldwyn
  • Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded. -- Jean Plaidy
  • I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters. -- Martin Buber
  • Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently. -- Ernest Rutherford
  • I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen. -- Grace Darling
  • Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.) -- Louis Pasteur
  • Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. -- Simon Raven
  • My ballsack drives me nuts. Jogging has got to be the floppiest sport. Definitely not for lovers. Gentlemen prefer gymnastics. -- Jarod Kintz
  • I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.' -- Robert Englund
  • Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne. -- Paul Claudel
  • Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles. -- John Lyly
  • Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe. -- Frank Miller
  • Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is -- William Osler
  • Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends. -- Victoria Wood
  • Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783 -- George Washington
  • Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence. -- Vince Lombardi
  • Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position. -- Gore Vidal
  • Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise. -- Anthony Trollope
  • Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife. -- Susan B. Anthony
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  • An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate. -- James Bryce
  • 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 is the truth. -- Benjamin Peirce
  • The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work. -- Alan Moore
  • 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. -- Karel Capek
  • Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light. -- Daniel Webster
  • Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Works for me. For the ones we love, today we're allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah! -- Rudyard Kipling
  • Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole... -- Hans Frank
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, if you have a friend who says he does not believe in conspiracy, look him straight in the eye and tell them that they are ignorant. 'I love you brother, I love you sister, but you are stupid. -- Texe W Marrs
  • You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls. -- Margaret Mitchell
  • The confrontation was not created by the police. The confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder. -- Richard J. Daley
  • Actually, I had a really nice part in that movie [Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains]. I mean, I have, like, one second in the final-cut version, where I say "You're fired" to Diane Lane. That's about all you see of me. -- Brent Spiner
  • I think there should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect." -- Jack Handey
  • Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good. -- Vince Lombardi
  • Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • I'd like to name my kid a whole phrase. You know, something like Ladies and Gentlemen. That'll be a cool name for a kid. This is my son, Ladies and Gentlemen! Then, when he gets out of hand, I get to go, Ladies and Gentlemen, please! -- Louis C. K.
  • Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem. -- Dianne Feinstein
  • Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse. -- Frank Abagnale
  • These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searches, and to set bounds to other Mens Industry; as if they knew the Marks that God has placed to Knowledge... -- Christiaan Huygens
  • Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with His big ring of keys and will say to humanity, 'Gentlemen, it is closing time.' -- Marcellin Berthelot
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  • It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen. -- Mamie Van Doren
  • Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed. -- Jack Kemp
  • Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. -- William Shakespeare
  • Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around. -- Cole Porter
  • There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win. -- Len Goodman
  • First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers. -- Claude Debussy
  • Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave. -- Dave Grohl
  • Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you! -- George M. Cohan
  • 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
  • Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart. -- David Rockefeller
  • Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit. -- E. F. Benson
  • Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs. -- Hamid Karzai
  • 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
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  • All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him. -- John Wayne
  • And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.' -- Cyrano de Bergerac
  • A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally -- Oscar Wilde
  • A Gentleman attracts the attention of many, but only has eyes for his own lady. -- Thoughts of a real man
  • Blondes also prefer gentlemen. -- Mamie Van Doren
  • The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen, -- Herb Brooks
  • Honest men are the gentlemen of nature. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • When boys unite hearts they become gentlemen. -- Molly Friedenfeld
  • Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo! -- P. G. T. Beauregard
  • We must be gentle now we are gentlemen. -- William Shakespeare
  • Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death. -- Samuel Garth
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