Quotes About Manners

There are a lot of players who fiddle around with their towel in your shot or they get up out of their chair to see if a ball's on when you're about to play your shot.

Normally, at a debate or a town hall, I would be quick to say to someone, 'That was rude,' or, 'We're going to try to keep it civil here,' or, 'Let's not have personal attacks.'

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.

Etiquette is the grease that makes it possible for all of us to rub together without unnecessary overheating.

He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn't done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.

A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

Ciara, there are certain things a man does not ask of a lady." "You are not asking." "Aye.

If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.

Leighton was used to letting women talk. Whether by temperament or by the requirement to be amiable, women talked, their speech the unguent that greased the gears of polite society.

Often it is children who tell their parents to put away the cell phone at dinner.

For shame, Miss Hunt. If your grandfather learned you had taken the liberty of inspecting the tools of one of his workers, he might just tan your hide.

Indians of my parents' and grandparents' generation never sipped—they thought it unsanitary to be spreading germs by sipping cups, even if the dishes were washed afterward. Instead they used tumblers with rims to pour coffee, tea, water, or rasam down their throat

I learned that when people greeted me by saying, "Hi! How are you?" the correct response was not to elaborate on how I actually felt but to toss it right back at them with a "Fine. How are you?

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Your whole house smells of dog, says someone who comes to visit. I say I'll take care of it. Which I do by never inviting that person to visit again.

One woman even disparaged Johnson for failing to include obscenities. "No, Madam, I hope I have not daubed my fingers," he replied, archly. "I find, however, that you have been looking for them.