"The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman."

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Source : Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

Sydney Biddle Barrows

#Gentleman Quotes

“The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.”
“I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.”
“The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.”
“And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.”
“The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.”
“I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.”
“The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.”
“When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.”

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