A Quote by Russell Lynes

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

Russell Lynes

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Behave Gentleman Lady Like Makes Man Woman

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Russell Lynes
American - Critic
December 2, 1910 - September 14, 1991

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

Herbert Spencer

No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

Jane Austen

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Russell Lynes

Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.

Beau Brummell

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Edith Evans

The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.

Richard P. Feynman

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I just don't like to be called a 'woman' or a 'lady' because I don't feel like either a woman or a lady. I feel like a musician.

Gina Schock

Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.

Joseph Abboud

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked

Laurell K. Hamilton

There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.

William Cowper Prime

I believe the switch from 'lady' to 'woman' was part of the women's movement. 'Lady' was a euphemism for 'woman,' and that was one reason that we wanted to move away from it.