“Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.”
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Milan Kundera198
Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023Related quotes
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.”
Bertrice Small (1937–2015) American writer
Source: Lost Love Found
V.S. Pritchett (1900–1997) British writer and critic
"Rider Haggard: Still Riding", p. 25
The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)
“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Martin Parker (1624–1647) English ballad writer
Ye Gentlemen of England, (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Notes from Underground
Part 1, Chapter 1 (page 8)
Notes from Underground (1864)
“There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.”
Howard Cosell (1918–1995) American sportscaster
October 12, 1977, reporting a school fire (initially mistaken as a tenement fire), while announcing Game 2 of the 1977 World Series. This comment, while widely attributed to Cosell, was never made.[citation needed]
Incorrectly Attributed
“And ladies and gentlemen, the kitchen is closed!”
Mike Lange (1948) Canadian sportscaster
Lange described the call: "I went into a place to try and get something to eat and the lady very distinctly said to me, 'The kitchen is closed!' I said, 'Wow. There's the end, that's it, you can't eat any more, you haven't got a prayer.' I said, 'That's finality, baby!'"
"Eddie Spaghetti! The Story Behind Mike Lange-isms"