Quotes About Manners

Miss Thane turned her head to look up at Sir Tristram. 'I wish you will tell me what you did,' she said. 'You were not on the Brighton mail, were you? Is it possible that you rode here ventre à terre ?' 'No,' replied Sir Tristram. 'I came post.' Miss Thane seemed to abandon interest in his proceedings.

Then you,' said Sophy, 'are Lord Charlbury!' He bowed. 'I am, and I perceive that my fame has gone before me. I own, I should not have chosen to figure in your mind as the man with mumps, but so, I see, it is!

A jaw like a mastiff's, a frame like a giant's, eyes like two daggers, a smile like a tiger's snarl,Bernard murmured. Aye, he is all that!! Master Herbert said.A murrain be on him! And when I came to him,what did I do? I did bow in all politeness, yet stiffly withal to show him I'd not brook his surliness. I did hear ye did bow so low that your head came below your knees,Bernard said.

Me, I am not a lady,' announced her grace. 'I have been very well educated, and I will drink port.

In a nobler age one could have answered such impertinence by jostling his lordship as he stood holding open the door, so that he would have been obliged to demand a meeting. Or did one, even in that age, refrain from jostling people in doorways when a lady was present?

But I'm about to offer for you!' said the Viscount, with more than a touch of asperity.

Sit down, and I'll give you a drink. What would you like?' 'I'll have a Side-car, please.

He wore very tight Inexpressibles, and very high and rigidly starched shirt-points, which made it hard for him to turn his head; and when he bowed a slight creaking betrayed that a swelling paunch was confined by stays.

Instead of rising, as a hostess should, and shaking hands, she only turned her head and smiled at him. Lady Denny saw that smile, and, glancing swiftly at Damerel, saw the smile that answered it. As well might they have kissed!

Lady Mablethorpe shuddered. 'Is she dreadful?' 'She is an impudent strumpet!' said Mr. Ravenscar coldly.

Mrs Scorrier ought to sit at the bottom of the table,' said Aubrey positively. 'You mean the foot of the table: opposite to the head, you understand,' said Mrs Scorrier instructively. 'Yes, of course,' replied Aubrey, looking surprised. 'Did I say bottom? I wonder what made me do that?

Ay, and what do you think he was doing when I walked in? Reading poetry to her! What a booberkin! I can tell you this, my boy: in my day we'd more rumgumption than to bore a pretty woman into a lethargy!

Of all the questions in the world I believe What are you thinking about? to be the most impertinent.

A la gente que empieza una frase con personalmente, y siempre son mujeres, deberían arrojarla a los leones. Es una costumbre repulsiva.

Live where you choose! It's all one to me. Have you anything more to say?' 'No, I have not, and I should be very happy to think I need never say another word to you for as long as I live – and of all things in the world there is nothing – nothing – so abominable, and contemptible, and cowardly, and ungentlemanly as persons who walk out of the room when one is addressing them!

thought. Lady Bridlington gives an

A man whose raiment attracted attention, had said Mr Brummell, was not a well-dressed man.

You mustn't frown, Venetia, never in my presence, at all events!

for one couldn't expect her to dine in the housekeeper's

I hold it unmannerly if you are about to tell us your wife's failings without her here to defend herself.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Smartness, a good appearance, courtesy, delicacy are not yet norms, are not yet an integral part of the approach of workers in the state apparatus, of their approach either to work or to dealing with the public.

The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man's look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement, manners. The naked pocket connotes the opposite: working class, tasteless, base, crude, ignorant.

Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.