Quotes About Manners

I don't walk into a dinner party and say, 'You're an idiot; give me my coat.'

People compliment me and if I ignore them, it doesn't mean I'm rude. It just means I'm embarrassed.

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

Stojící ?lovÄ›k m?že dát pohodlnÄ› ruce do kapes, což není v Anglii považováno za nevhodné.

Gentleman d?v??uje a ml?í.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

As a child she had been taught it was rude to say no, unless she didn't mean it. If she was offered another piece of cake and she wanted it she was obliged to refuse out of politeness. And if she didn't want it she had to say yes, even if it choked her. It was involved but understandable.

Northerners are exactly like their weather—cold and boring. And I swear, none of them has one iota of etiquette or propriety.

no jokes about my poo.

Before she could put Paula in her place, a beautifully attired older woman standing near her said pointedly, "Miss July, please don't judge we Philadelphians by this graceless visitor from Memphis.

Seek to please all the citizens, even though Your house may be in an ungracious city. For such a course will favour win from all: But haughty manners oft produce destruction.

The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty fucking cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too?

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others. Only in a culture of hyperindividualism would it occur to you to do what you wanted without reference to anyone else—

only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.

People think because they employed you they're allowed to treat you like a dictator, or whatever the worse word for dictator is. And that's always been a problem for me. Opening the door for someone behind you is as important as designing a building.

WHITLOCK 2 (to VRIL): In my humble opinion, Be off to oblivion! Their tears crocodilian Will dry here below. Your act is vaudevillian, Your faults are octillion! Your manners reptilian Would shock a Brazilian! Alas, but a Vrillian's a pitiful beau! A despicable, fickle, unprintable foe! LADY CADENCE: (still in the grip of VRIL) Mr. Cartwright, my most mannered acquaintances hail from Brazil. WHITLOCK 2: My apologies, Your Ladyship. It's a difficult rhyme.

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

I would like to think that I'm a gentleman and a nice guy.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted as if they were raising a generation of would-be soldiers. I remember some of my friends' parents who would shake their children's hands at bedtime.

I get wound up by bad manners on public transport.