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

“A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”

“He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.”

“The difference between a commonly well-behaved woman and a high-bred lady consists in very small things—but what a difference it is!”

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

“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid”

“It makes a lot of sense to me. She seems to me like a Jewish woman, the way she thinks and behaves.”

“[T]he honour of a woman,— a true woman in China, is not only to love and be true to her husband, but to live absolutely, selflessly for him, In fact, this Religion of Selflessness is the religion of the woman, especially, the gentlewoman or lady in China, as the Religion of Loyalty which I have tried elsewhere to explain, is the religion of the man, — the gentleman in China.”

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”