“Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.”
Source: Laughable Loves
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Milan Kundera 198
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.”
“The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.”
Source: Lost Love Found
"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.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Ye Gentlemen of England, (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Part 1, Chapter 1 (page 8)
Notes from Underground (1864)
“There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.”
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!”
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"