Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

Lenny Kravitz was the biggest gentleman on set. He always helped the ladies, like by pulling out the chair for them. If we were both walking, he would always stop and let me go before him-little things like that.

My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’

Every member present must behave like a gentleman, and those who are not must try to.

Lack of etiquette and manners is a huge turn off. Men who don't behave decently are irritating. Also, I don't like guys who show off. When will guys realize that girls hate showoffs!

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

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

I'm a gentleman.

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

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

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

Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

I love having the door opened for me. Isn't that just polite? But the key is, would you then mind if I opened the door for you? The key is, chivalry should be consensual. Both parties should be feeling good about that.

The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true.