“A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.”
"The Part-Time Lady," http://books.google.com/books?id=0qhKAAAAMAAJ&q=%22A+lady+is+a+woman+who+makes+a+man+behave+like+a+gentleman%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage A Surfeit of Honey (1957)
Observer (London, Sept. 30, 1956)
“A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.”
"The Part-Time Lady," http://books.google.com/books?id=0qhKAAAAMAAJ&q=%22A+lady+is+a+woman+who+makes+a+man+behave+like+a+gentleman%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage A Surfeit of Honey (1957)
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
Thomas Cohen discussing her Judaism, as quoted in the Jewish Chronicle, 11 April 2014, p. 5
About
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
Act IV
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)
Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)
“But it would be enough that, when riding beasts, they behave like men and not like beasts.”
Part II
“Georgie doesn't like babies do you Georgie? Some days, Georgie, I think you behave like a bloke.”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius; translation from C. D. Yonge (trans.), The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), p. 196.
Said "when a man preserved a strict silence during the whole of a banquet".