Quotes About Manners

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two. There - that is it. That is the way good little boys and girls should do. I see one little girl who is looking out of the window - I am afraid she thinks I am out there somewhere - perhaps up in one of the trees making a speech to the little birds. [Applausive titter.]

Manners! he said. Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done. Do you like it?

The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger. - The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.

A body can't be too partic'lar how they talk 'bout these-yer dead people, Tom.

the Welshman allowed it to eat into the vitals of his visitors

A kindly courtesy does at least save one's feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.

If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, I'm glad to see you, and said with your heartier soul, I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time. When

And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself. Her

I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners. Manners! he said. Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.

Say, do we kill the women too? Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. Kill the women? No; nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by and by they fall in love with you, and never want to go home anymore.

Rocky Mountain etiquette required of a spectator was, that he should help the gentleman bury his game—otherwise his churlishness would surely be remembered against him the first time he killed a man himself and needed a neighborly turn in interring him.

Henry, I'm ashamed of you. You don't half thank the good gentleman. May I do it for you?' -Indeed you shall, dear, if you can improve it. Let us see you try. She walked to my man, got up in his lap, put her arm round his neck, and kissed him right on the mouth. Then the two old gentlemen shouted with laughter, but I was dumfounded, just petrified, as you may say.

Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was—and all that kind of rot, the way women always do for to force out compliments;

I think that all this courteous lying is a sweet and loving art, and should be cultivated.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

People who go to the Opera, they don't go to the toilet, not even at home.

Rather, think of etiquette as a philosophy of living and enjoying life with grace, compassion, and respect for others.

Treating others with kindness, consideration, and respect was timeless. All should be aware of how their actions affect others in their daily lives. Marriage