“When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?”
Edith Evans (1888–1976) British actress
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)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman." by Russell Lynes?
Russell Lynes2
American art historian 1910–1991Related quotes
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Magna Moralia XI, p. 156.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Variant: The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
Source: "Northanger Abbey" (1817)
Peaches Geldof (1989–2014) British journalist, television presenter and model
Thomas Cohen discussing her Judaism, as quoted in the Jewish Chronicle, 11 April 2014, p. 5
About
Gu Hongming book The Spirit of the Chinese People
page 82
The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915), Chinese Woman
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Act IV
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)