Bill Maher Quotes

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

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.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

I don't think it would be dignified.

Gentlemen don't do that.

There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.

But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

I'm 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.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

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

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

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

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

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

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

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.