Lady Randolph Churchill Quotes

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.

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

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

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

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

I've been taking lessons in Damehood from Judi Dench. Being a Dame is useful in restaurants, hotels, and restaurants, Judi says, but you have to get someone else to do the booking.

I look at my grandmother, and she has this grace and class about her. When she walks into a room and sits down and talks to someone. Everything she does in life. I feel that women of her generation were really taught that.

Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.

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

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

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'm teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house, and how to be thoughtful and polite.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

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

Some things a lady doesn't tell.

My philosophy is that one must always give a lady what she wants. That never goes out of style.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I appreciate the details.

No one teaches you how to be graceful.