Thom Browne Quotes

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

Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

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.

I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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.

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.'

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'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

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

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 grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

All doors open to courtesy.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.