Quotes About Manners

I realized what a decadence it was, to refuse to answer a question. No thanks, don't want to talk about that and the worst you get is someone thinks you're rude.

Había sido un comentario grosero y de mal gusto. Mi cerebro eructaba pensamientos inapropiados en los momentos más inoportunos. Gases mentales que no conseguía controlar.

Foreigners thought the Americans' eating habits were atrocious, their food execrable, and their coffee detestable. Americans tended to eat fast, often sharing a common bowl or cup, to bolt their food in silence, and to use only their knives in eating. Everywhere travelers complained about "the violation of decorum, the want of etiquette, the rusticity of manners in this generation."36

A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly and wickedness of which man is capable, enameled with manners and gilded with hypocrisy.

Blaise rather liked the way that manners had been pared down to their essentials.

Wo immer ein Thron ist, findet man in reicher Auswahl jede Torheit und jede Bosheit, deren der Mensch fähig ist, poliert mit guten Manieren und vergoldet mit Heuchelei.

At first Madison was shy but Mrs. Todd soon warmed him up, filled his glass again and again with my best claret.

Jeans should never be worn to someone's home if you are having dinner there.

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!

There is nothing - nothing - worse than seeing ankle or a hairy calf when a man in a suit or trousers sits down.

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!

The worst thing is when people try and take pictures surreptitiously. I always say, 'Look, you can ask me for a photograph. You will get a much better one than just the side of my face.' Sometimes they just run off. They can't cope.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

A direct question in the company of men is in most contexts a sort of insult, something you learn young in Sligo bars.

Someone who butts in when you're talking and smugly provides the ending herself. Indeed anyone who butts in, be they child or adult, is most infuriating.

I do wish men, when they're taking their leave from a lady at dawn, wouldn't insist on adjusting their clothes to a nicety, or fussily tying their lacquered cap securely into place. After all, who would laugh at a man or criticize him if they happened to catch sight of him on his way home from an assignation in fearful disarray, with his cloak or hunting costume all awry?

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!

She had never liked people who spoke too familiarly upon first meeting. There ought to be a little bit more formality.