Ted Tally Quotes

“Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.”

“Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.”

“A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?”

“Why we are gentlemen if life is not gentle with us?”

“Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.”

“Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.”

“Guys who kiss girls on the forehead are the sweetest and the best gentlemen you can ever have.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, let us hear the demand of life and adhere to it. It would do us good”

“You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.”

“Dear Mrs Chiley," said Lucilla, "it doesn't matter in the least what you wear; there are only to be gentlemen, you, know, and one never dresses for gentlemen. (...) Their vanity is something dreadful-but it is one of my principles never to dress unless there are ladies.”

“Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.”