Nick Cave Quotes

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever.

Gentlemen don't do that.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

I'm a gentleman.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

We don't have spittoons on street corners any more. It's no longer acceptable to spit on the street.

Some things a lady doesn't tell.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear.

When I worked with Keira Knightley in 'Never Let Me Go,' I learned how to be classy and sophisticated.