Paulie Malignaggi 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, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

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

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

I'm a gentleman.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

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.

He is every other inch 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 am at heart a gentleman.

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

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.

Gentlemen don't do that.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

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

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

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.

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.

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.