Arthur Cohn Quotes

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

I am at heart a gentleman.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

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

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Gentlemen don't do that.

It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated.

I don't talk to scum.

I'm just not going around disrespecting people.

I'm a kid who has a lot of respect. I believe in respect.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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 want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

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.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

I would never disrespect anyone.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.