Quotes About Manners

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The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

Being English, we're polite and reserved, we don't express our opinions; we're very private people.

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.

You know who I like the way he celebrates is Peyton. He kind of gives the guy a handshake and goes back to the sidelines. I think that's a great celebration right there.

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

I don't sign autographs when I'm out for a meal or out with my kids. I think that's rude and disrespectful. I would never ask anyone for an autograph while they were eating dinner; that's what I was taught by my parents.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient.

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Civility is not simply about manners.

I truly hate being a guest in someone's home...Worst of all, you have to 'make nice' at all hours. I don't want someone across the table from me while I'm eating my breakfast. I don't want to share the newspaper and I don't want to talk to anyone at the end of the day. If I were interested in that shit, I'd be married again by now and put a permanent end to all the peace and quiet.

All Southern women have murder just under the surface, but we cloak it in graciousness.

I tend to place kids in a class with dogs, preferring the quiet, the smart, and the well trained.

How better to show your respect for another person's thoughts than by silence? Is it polite to cover those thoughts with your own ideas? What is polite about that?

rudeness is a misdemeanor in Charleston.

Everyone is an atheist until they clog a toilet in someone else's house

was generally agreed that Mildred had managed a déclassé

In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

The trouble with us is that we've been too polite with each other.

I can't stand people who jabber on their phones in supermarkets, blocking your access to the butter, then getting all self-important when you interrupt to ask them to move

The next day Mrs Honeyfoot told her husband that John Segundus was exactly what a gentleman should be, but she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted.

Gentlemen are often invited to stay in other people's houses. Rooms hardly ever are.