Quotes About Gentlemen

At Arnhem, the British fielded too many gentlemen and not enough players.

I hardly have any names on my dance card," Emma said, slightly despairing. This was not how she imagined her debut. "There are just four names on mine," Olivia said. "But I think the gentlemen only agreed to escape my mother. I really can't blame them.

Gentlemen,' the professor said gravely. 'You must stop this madman. If you do not, you are looking at a doomsday scenario of apocalyptic proportions.

But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

It is dull in this world, gentlemen!

Through the gates of the inn in the provincial town of N drove a rather handsome, smallish spring britzka, of the sort driven around in by bachelors: retired lieutenant colonels, staff captains, landowners possessed of some hundred peasant souls—in short, all those known as gentlemen of the middling sort.

Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants, but debt is the money of slaves.

Is this what all you refined gentlemen are like—wishing and pining and never acting?

The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and their leather boots, nibbling burnt cakes and praising Diamond's mind, and all the while their eyes said other things. Now, their eyes said. Now. Then: Patience, patience. 'You are flowers,' their mouths said, 'You are jewels, you are golden dreams.' Their eyes said: I eat flowers, I burn with dreams, I have a tower without a door in my heart, and I will keep you there...