Grave Gentleman

Famous quotes containing the words grave and/or gentleman:

    Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I’d love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
    Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)

    Eighteen convicts being hanged in one day ... a woman was crying an account of their execution. A gentleman asked her why she said nineteen, when there had been but eighteen hanged? She replied, “Sir, I did not know you had been reprieved.”
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)