Manners Quotes

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay a...

Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners

The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pl...

The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolati...

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest ...

Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't gi...

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in ...

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and ...

We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate...

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You ...

She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner...

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Foreign, for sure. But we all bleed the same color red. No doubt about that. The truth of that state...

Since the moment when, at the sight of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looke...

Among the people to whom he belonged, nothing was written or talked about at that time except the Se...

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world wil...

He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners."Manners!...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten ...

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ...

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long wi...

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exh...

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others...

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.

I'm making a listI'm making a list of things I must sayFor politeness,And goodness and kindness and ...

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.

I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Suit your manner to the man.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infan...

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another quest...

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?""I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

And if you do see any pirates, I don't want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you under...

For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret anno...

Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough t...

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual sh...

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with oth...

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why cus...

She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair q...

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, s...

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular ...

They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we...