Quotes About Manners

If you sprinkle when you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat.

Paco!" she announces loudly. "Yeah, I'm talkin' to you," Elena says, pointing to Paco talking to a bunch of girls. "Next time you want to take a dump, do it in someone else's house.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

Our pride will lead us to perish, but our politeness keeps us alive.

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

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

The best of the people are the first to greet others.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail.

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

Never say sorry as a greeting

Never reply to those," Zar said. "The heys." "Why not?" "It never gets better." Zar began to wriggle into jeans. "You don't want to go downhill from hey.

Here was he, going to die for her; and here was she, blaming him for a breach of manners. Decidedly, the slave had the whip-hand.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Bastard had the bad manners to die before we were through talking to him.

Cut the sarcasm. It makes you sound like an even bigger asshole

Hasn't anyone ever told you," Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, " that a gentleman never lays a hand on a lady?" Which I thought was kind of funny, considering where Jesse had had his hand the last time I'd seen him. But I thought it better to let that slide.

I don't know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don't. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes.