A Quote by Beau Brummell
Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.
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No lady is ever a gentleman.
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To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.
A true gentleman never leaves his lady.
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."
Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?
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A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
