Gentlemen

Famous quotes containing the word gentlemen:

“If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say ... “Sweet Friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear.””
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“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.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)