Emily Post Quotes

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

Gentlemen don't do that.

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

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

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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.

I'm a gentleman.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

I like things that are civilized.

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

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

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Every member present must behave like a gentleman, and those who are not must try to.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.

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

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

I think I tend to try to let a woman walk through a door first, and I walk on the outside on the street. But that's probably because I'm an ancient creature.