John Gay Quotes

A true gentleman never leaves his lady.

The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

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.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

I've always treated women well.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

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.

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.

Gentlemen don't do that.

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.

Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

I treat all women with the utmost respect both professionally and personally and would never do anything to disrespect them.

I always open doors for women. It's just good manners.

There's a big difference between chauvinism and chivalry.

A gallant man is above ill words.

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

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.

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

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. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid

I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.