Brian McKnight Quotes

I'm a gentleman.

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.

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Gentlemen don't do that.

Hatton don't look much like a guy who thinks about commas. But he is a gentleman. His family are gentlemanly. Real classy people.

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 want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

I am at heart a gentleman.

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.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

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

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

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

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

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.

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

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

Listen, I'm a gentleman at the end of the day.

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.