“A gentleman is a someone who can describe Sophia Loren without using gestures.”
– Michel Audiard
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“A gentleman is a someone who can describe Sophia Loren without using gestures.”
– Michel Audiard
Knowledge Guild 
This particular quotation is a translation from the French “Un gentleman, c’est celui qui est capable de décrire Sophia Loren sans faire de geste.” British comedian Arthur Smith once said that the French football coach Gerard Houllier told him another take on Audiard’s line: “Un gentleman c’est une homme qui décrit une femme sans les mains.” which translates as ‘A gentleman is a man who can describe a woman without using his hands.’
When one considers how good a coach he was at Liverpool I would tend to agree with the man!
I included Houllier’s version because I think it a bit more poignant, and funny of course.
Agreed.
Is drooling a gesture?
She was, and still is, one of the most beautiful women in the world – age can never eradicate true beauty – and in that category, I would have to include Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.