William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

I'm a gentleman.

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

Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.

Gentlemen don't do that.

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

I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

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

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

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

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

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

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

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

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.

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.

A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.