Joan Collins Quotes

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.

I like good manners, old-fashioned courting, I like being wooed.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

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

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

Love is the smallest part of gallantry.

Let him treat you like a lady and open the car door for you. If he doesn't automatically open the door for you, stand by the darn thing and don't get into the vehicle until he realises he needs to get hid behind out of the driver's seat and come round and open the car door for you. That's his job!

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.

If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

Gentlemen don't do that.

Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

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

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.

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

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.

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.

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.