Gentlemen

Famous quotes containing the word gentlemen:

“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“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)

“They dragged you from homeland,
They chained you in coffles,
They huddled you spoon-fashion in filthy hatches,
They sold you to give a few gentlemen ease.”
—Sterling Allen Brown (b. 1901)