Ladylike Behavior Quotes

Manners form the great charm of women.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

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

I'm a lady, and I run my business with dignity. I don't need to be tough. You get nowhere screaming.

I had no interest in people telling me to be feminine, to be ladylike, to wear dresses - it just made me rebel completely.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

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.

People should be allowed to roll out of bed and go to an interview; people shouldn't be telling you, 'You can't curse because it's not ladylike.' I don't believe in those standards.

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

The wholesome is definitely intentional and drilled into me. I mean, we weren't allowed to pierce our ears growing up. We didn't wear makeup. We couldn't have layers in our hair, perms, or color, or manicures. My dad didn't think it was ladylike. My dad just felt like his daughters should be wholesome.

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

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

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

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

Claire McCaskill acted more ladylike during her previous campaign.

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

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

Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.

Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.

I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.