Nell Carter Quotes

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

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.

When I worked with Keira Knightley in 'Never Let Me Go,' I learned how to be classy and sophisticated.

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.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

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

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.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

The more elegance the less virtue in all times and countries.

Poise is a word that seems to have slipped out of the lexicon. There's no emoji for it.

Granddad taught me a long time ago, act like you've been there before.

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

The greater man the greater courtesy.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

I'm a gentleman.