Richelle Mead Quotes

If a really, really pretty girl needs a ride home, I'm your guy.

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

Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

Lenny Kravitz was the biggest gentleman on set. He always helped the ladies, like by pulling out the chair for them. If we were both walking, he would always stop and let me go before him-little things like that.

Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

When we're on the street and someone drops something, I pick it up.

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

It's nice when people approach you to help.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

it is the personal and individual thing which is done by one human being for another that is the most valuable assistance which can be rendered in time of trouble. Better not only for the one who receives, but a thousand times happier for the one who gives.

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.

I open the doors for everybody all the time.