Quotes About Manners

Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

You eat the room service employees every time?" Denise asked, shocked. "Of course. But don't fret on their behalf. I always tip well.

If you have been told that you are late and unreliable more than once, then not only do you lack punctuality, but you also lack decency and seriousness, which is certainly very annoying.

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

And what may I do for you?" Jane had intended to try to draw her away to the refreshment room, but it seemed they were

Miss Daisy Morrison, behaving so scandalously on her very first public appearance among the beau monde, would not easily be forgiven. But of course a

You are despicable, she said, flushing, and you really are no gentleman.

There is one in the drawing room," she said with

He is enjoying the situation . . . I can tell. I know his type. Too handsome for his own good. Thinks that he is the answer to every woman's prayer. Thinks he has only to crook a finger to make a woman come running. Thinks he can make me flush and simper and flutter my eyelashes merely by raising that eyebrow. There should be a law that gentlemen can raise only both eyebrows together or none at all. There really should.

Martin breakfasted with Elizabeth and Nancy. The latter treated him with cold civility. As if he cared, Martin thought. Silly bitch—did she think he cared how she treated him?

I shall surprise you and behave like a perfect gentleman.

You are insufferable, my lord, she seethed. He grinned as he held back her chair while she seated herself. Yes, my lady, I know, he said.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.

It sometimes seems to me like we're not supposed to notice that Shug's colored, or that saying anything about it would be bad manners. That puzzles me because Shug's being colored strikes me as real obvious. And usually anybody's difference gets pounced on and picked at. This silence is a lie peculiar to a man's skin color, which makes it extra serious and extra puzzling. Daddy

She felt that Paolo's story would teach me a lesson, the punch line of which was something like divorcing a salary man for somebody who punches a clock was bad manners.

What do 'civilization' and 'monks' mean?" asked Annie. "I think civilization is when people have books and art and good manners," said Jack.

He bowed to show his respect. "Thank you," said Jack and Annie. They bowed back to him.

Thanks," said Annie. "Thanks," said Jack.