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Letter "G" » gentlemen
«There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen: and the gentlemen were not seamen.»
Author: Thomas Babington
| Keywords:
Charles, gentlemen, In the Navy, navy, seaman, seamen, The Gentlemen
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
| Keywords:
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«There are two kinds of fidelity - that of dogs and that of cats; and you gentlemen, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Fidelity
| Keywords:
fidelity, gentlemen
«When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the advice of their nominee: Don't Inhale .»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
advice, billowing, Democrats, gentlemen, inhale, inhaled, inhaling, ladies, Ladies and, nominee, smoke, The Gentlemen
«Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Conversation,
Questioning
| Keywords:
gentlemen, mode, questioning
«Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.»
«We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.»
«We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.»
«Unhand me, gentlemen,By heaven! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
gentlemen, ghost, lets, unhand
«There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Adam, gardeners, gentlemen, hold up, Makers
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