Quotes About Manners

What I say is a gentleman's a gentleman even if he does drive a tractor.

Mr. Fortescue's contribution to the ritual was a grunt.

Young women do not faint nowadays, monsieur, without considerable provocation.

You can tell a lot about people by the way they treat the help.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

make a good showing among all the monied bigwigs in the Mazarile chamber of commerce, he'd brought both of us along for the evening. We were meant to be on our best behaviour. Prim and proper educated young ladies.

Speaking from personal experience, if someone asked me on a date, I would still want to pay.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

My pet peeve is when people come over to my house, and there are coasters, but they don't use a coaster.

Even in a culture where people are well meaning, there are sometimes 'microaggressions.' People who will just cut you off. You'll be talking, and someone will interrupt you. That's become a big pet peeve of mine.

My least favorite thing or my pet peeve would be people who literally ignore the other people you're with, or the situation, and they just dive right in and cut off the conversation.

There is a British assumption that you mustn't speak evil of anyone's garden because it is rude - it is like criticising their home, their children or their pets.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

It doesn't take a cell phone to make a person rude. There are rude people all over the place. But people are learning. I have never heard a cell phone ring in the movies. We are going to learn how to live with the advantages of new technology.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

I don't like it when people remain glued to their phones while talking, so I have no apps on mine.

I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.

I'm at the doctor's office. I'm in the waiting room. And there's this guy on his cell phone, talking really loud. Does he think he owns the place? Apparently. I think this is so offensive. But you have to remember: It doesn't take a cell phone to make people rude. People were rude before there were cell phones.

We don't have phones at the dinner table.

Britons are very respectful - if they want to take a photo, they ask politely.

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

It's actually sexist to accuse men as a whole of something, you know? It's just - I don't know. A guy can't even open a door for a lady without being called a pig.

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.