Mary Wiseman Quotes

I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

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

I'm a southern gentleman.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

Oh, all southern women say they're sorry. You could do almost anything, bump into some one, don't spread the jam right, you're always sorry. I've had people tell me to stop saying it so much!

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.

She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

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

I think I tend to try to let a woman walk through a door first, and I walk on the outside on the street. But that's probably because I'm an ancient creature.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.