Mamie Van Doren Quotes

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

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

Girls really like for doors to be opened for them. Guys should really remember that.

I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Gentlemen don't do that.

I hold the door for the ladies - I'm a gent.

I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.

We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get.

I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.

I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.

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

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

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

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.