Thomas Noon Talfourd Quotes

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

I'm a gentleman.

I am at heart a gentleman.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

That was my upbringing: you treat people with respect.

There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

If you're rude to waiters or waitstaff, I cannot handle that. I really think that shows your true personality.

Every student must be a gentleman.

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

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

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.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you're spoken to. You look people in the eye when they address you and when you address them back.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?